[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood.
AISHA HINDSI walked away from the craft because I wanted to know that this is what I was supposed to do with my life.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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I became an instant fan of the show [Underground] seconds into the opening frames of the pilot.
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An opportunity to honor the legacy of the lives drawn into the lines in my face, the broad of my nose.
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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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I almost believe that Harriet Tubman asked God for a leave like, “I’m gonna need to go back down there and take care of some things. They’re in trouble.”
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Learning about her and the layers of her helps you to see that the same woman who holds a gun and an axe felt feelings for a man.
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The masterful work of the DP [Director of Photography] Kevin McKnight and his crew, and the layers and depths each actor goes to to ensure we the audience feel a human connection to these characters led me to sign my name on the dotted line.
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It was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ].
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Even in past relationships, that I’m still a woman, I still have vulnerabilities even though my aesthetic feels strong, powerful and full of all of the wisdom in the world, I’m still growing and becoming.
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You know, to be completely disgusted with injustice to the point that you will have to take some huge leaps of faith. And it may take one person leading many.
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One of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO.
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Understanding that what it is that you’re doing isn’t limited to the roles and the rejection, it’s bigger than that, it’s about your purpose in life.
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[Harriet Tubman] lived such a full, complex, and irrefutably-dynamic life that all the craft in the world would be insufficient in honoring her legacy.
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I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
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I am indebted to [my grandmothers] always for cradling me in the heart of Christ and encouraging my passion to press towards the mark of the high calling on my life, wherever that takes me.
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It’s no mistake that Harriet Tubman is revisiting us, in different forms, right now, as we travel through a very contentious time in the world.
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