I felt validated and valued , and here was this woman [Whoopi Goldberg ] inside my television screen who gave me a voice.
AISHA HINDSThe second season of Underground does explore Canada’s role in providing a welcoming place for the thousands who were in danger of being captured and returned to their owners, and those who escaped by way of rerouting beyond the American borders.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
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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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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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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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[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 dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.
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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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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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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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I think we’re in a time that calls for that level of courage, that level of resolve.
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It was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ].
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When that drone shot carried us through the main house with Rosalie, played so unflinchingly-brilliantly by Jurnee Smollett Bell, I signed on for the ride.
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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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