[I want to be remembered] as a small piece of the puzzle sent here to serve a bigger picture.
AISHA HINDSUnderstanding 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.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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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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