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.
AISHA HINDSShe 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.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to 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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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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I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.
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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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We’re living in a time where we all got to stay woke !
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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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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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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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The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you.
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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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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 or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find.
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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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