[Harriet Tubman] is a legend, an icon, a soldier on the side of justice, a spiritual warrior, and a servant of God.
AISHA HINDSThe show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system.
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I think we’re in a time that calls for that level of courage, that level of resolve.
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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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As well as the one of the baddest women to literally ever walk the land. I surrendered to her spirit.
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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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Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond.
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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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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 became an instant fan of the show [Underground] seconds into the opening frames of the pilot.
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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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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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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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[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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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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Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original.
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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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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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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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One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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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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The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you.
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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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One of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO.
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Her spirit is one that we absolutely need today, as we face odds that are akin to the divisive and systemic oppression that we read about in our history books, but it’s taken on a modern-day articulation of itself.
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The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system.
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Harriet Tubman is the perpetuation of a “Super Soul Sunday” every day.
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