Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
AISHA HINDSOnce 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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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.
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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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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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The dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.
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Harriet Tubman is the perpetuation of a “Super Soul Sunday” every day.
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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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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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[I want to be remembered] as a small piece of the puzzle sent here to serve a bigger picture.
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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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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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Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original.
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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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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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[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood.
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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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