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 HINDSBut truthfully, we have so many stories, lives and subjects to explore that I’d love to keep pushing towards new knowledge.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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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 became an instant fan of the show [Underground] seconds into the opening frames of the pilot.
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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 didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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The second season of Underground does explore Canada’s role in providing a welcoming place for the thousands who were in danger of being captured and returned to their owners, and those who escaped by way of rerouting beyond the American borders.
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Canada was certainly an additional option for the many traveling the treacherous terrain of the Underground Railroad in pursuit of what was perceived as “freedom.”
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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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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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[I want to be remembered] as a small piece of the puzzle sent here to serve a bigger picture.
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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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Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original.
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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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I went on to be inspired by many other artists and forms of art, and was soon directed to a place that would help harness my experiences and develop my voice within the craft, LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City.
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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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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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