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.
AISHA HINDSLearning 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.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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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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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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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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I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.
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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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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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The artistry on the show [ Underground] is apparent in each episode. From the riveting writing to the purposeful and precise direction.
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I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find.
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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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The dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.
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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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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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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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[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood.
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