So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
AISHA HINDSI became an instant fan of the show [Underground] seconds into the opening frames of the pilot.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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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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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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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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I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find.
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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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Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond.
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We’re living in a time where we all got to stay woke !
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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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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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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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Harriet Tubman is the perpetuation of a “Super Soul Sunday” every day.
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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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