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.
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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It was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ].
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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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[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood.
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Harriet Tubman is the perpetuation of a “Super Soul Sunday” every day.
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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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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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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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I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find.
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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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I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
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We’re living in a time where we all got to stay woke !
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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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I think we’re in a time that calls for that level of courage, that level of resolve.
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She was inspired by being sick and tired of the injustice she was experiencing and she knew she had a right to liberty or death.
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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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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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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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There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman.
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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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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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The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system.
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Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond.
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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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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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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 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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