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.
AISHA HINDSThe artistry on the show [ Underground] is apparent in each episode. From the riveting writing to the purposeful and precise direction.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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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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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 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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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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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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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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I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
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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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There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman.
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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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The 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.
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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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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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The dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.
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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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