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.
AISHA HINDSI felt validated and valued , and here was this woman [Whoopi Goldberg ] inside my television screen who gave me a voice.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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The dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.
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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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One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman.
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I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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I felt validated and valued , and here was this woman [Whoopi Goldberg ] inside my television screen who gave me a voice.
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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 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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[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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Learning about all these elements and aspects of her was mind-blowing and educational for me as a woman because I have to sometimes remind people that have known me for years.
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But truthfully, we have so many stories, lives and subjects to explore that I’d love to keep pushing towards new knowledge.
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