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.
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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One of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO.
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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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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 dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.
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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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[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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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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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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The artistry on the show [ Underground] is apparent in each episode. From the riveting writing to the purposeful and precise direction.
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Understanding that what it is that you’re doing isn’t limited to the roles and the rejection, it’s bigger than that, it’s about your purpose in life.
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One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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But truthfully, we have so many stories, lives and subjects to explore that I’d love to keep pushing towards new knowledge.
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I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find.
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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 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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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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Harriet Tubman is the perpetuation of a “Super Soul Sunday” every day.
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Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond.
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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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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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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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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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[I want to be remembered] as a small piece of the puzzle sent here to serve a bigger picture.
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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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The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system.
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