Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original.
AISHA HINDSI had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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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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Once the Fugitive Slave Act took effect, the Northern states were no longer safe for those who managed to escape from being enslaved.
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[Harriet Tubman] is a legend, an icon, a soldier on the side of justice, a spiritual warrior, and a servant of God.
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One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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Very early on in this process though I studied acting in high school and college, soon after graduation,
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Study and know that we are always a student of the craft well after we’ve completed any course of study… and approach the work as a servant, not a star.
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That is a huge part of my excitement, the fact that this generation will get such a beautifully-detailed introduction to a hero and icon that has largely lived in a few pages of our history books and in one-dimensional photographs.
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She moved seamlessly through an array of spirited and soul-stirring characters, each one holding a mirror up to me and allowing me in many ways to see a reflection of myself on screen.
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Her spirit is one that we absolutely need today, as we face odds that are akin to the divisive and systemic oppression that we read about in our history books, but it’s taken on a modern-day articulation of itself.
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I walked away from the craft because I wanted to know that this is what I was supposed to do with my life.
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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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Though I developed my own personal spiritual relationship later in life, the foundation they laid is what my faith was built upon.
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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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Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond.
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I think we’re in a time that calls for that level of courage, that level of resolve.
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