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.”
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.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman.
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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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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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When you understand the purpose [of life], then you can deal and journey through the obstacles, the rejections, the stops and starts, highs-and-lows with a different lens because you know that you’re moving in what you’re supposed to do.
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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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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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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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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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[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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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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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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When 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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A space where the conversation surrounding the issues in our country is offering a seat at the table to all the voices to be heard, a murder mystery, and grassroots look at our own humanity as we move through the parts and pieces of the story.
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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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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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