Though I developed my own personal spiritual relationship later in life, the foundation they laid is what my faith was built upon.
AISHA HINDSAn opportunity to honor the legacy of the lives drawn into the lines in my face, the broad of my nose.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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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 show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system.
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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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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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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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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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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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[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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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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[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood.
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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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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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I became an instant fan of the show [Underground] seconds into the opening frames of the pilot.
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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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