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 HINDSThank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond.
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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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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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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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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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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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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Though I developed my own personal spiritual relationship later in life, the foundation they laid is what my faith was built upon.
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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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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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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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Rosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn’t just decide to sit on the bus, it was strategic.
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I felt validated and valued , and here was this woman [Whoopi Goldberg ] inside my television screen who gave me a voice.
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Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond.
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I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
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The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you.
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