I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
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More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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A space where the conversation surrounding the issues in our country is offering a seat at the table to all the voices to be heard, a murder mystery, and grassroots look at our own humanity as we move through the parts and pieces of the story.
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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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[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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Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original.
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[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood.
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One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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The dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.
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Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond.
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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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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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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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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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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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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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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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