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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.

Aisha Hinds

[I want to be remembered] as a small piece of the puzzle sent here to serve a bigger picture.
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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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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 of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO.
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One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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[Harriet Tubman] is a legend, an icon, a soldier on the side of justice, a spiritual warrior, and a servant of God.
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As well as the one of the baddest women to literally ever walk the land. I surrendered to her spirit.
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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 had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
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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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The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you.
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The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system.
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[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood.
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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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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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I walked away from the craft because I wanted to know that this is what I was supposed to do with my life.
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Even in past relationships, that I’m still a woman, I still have vulnerabilities even though my aesthetic feels strong, powerful and full of all of the wisdom in the world, I’m still growing and becoming.
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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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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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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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The masterful work of the DP [Director of Photography] Kevin McKnight and his crew, and the layers and depths each actor goes to to ensure we the audience feel a human connection to these characters led me to sign my name on the dotted line.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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