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.”
AISHA HINDSThe show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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I went on to be inspired by many other artists and forms of art, and was soon directed to a place that would help harness my experiences and develop my voice within the craft, LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City.
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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 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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[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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There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman.
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One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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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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[I want to be remembered] as a small piece of the puzzle sent here to serve a bigger picture.
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We’re living in a time where we all got to stay woke !
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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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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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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 think we’re in a time that calls for that level of courage, that level of resolve.
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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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