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.
AISHA HINDSWhen that drone shot carried us through the main house with Rosalie, played so unflinchingly-brilliantly by Jurnee Smollett Bell, I signed on for the ride.
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The dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.
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One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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As well as the one of the baddest women to literally ever walk the land. I surrendered to her spirit.
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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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One of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO.
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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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I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.
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Rosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn’t just decide to sit on the bus, it was strategic.
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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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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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Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original.
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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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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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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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We’re living in a time where we all got to stay woke !
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