[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood.
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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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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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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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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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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Very early on in this process though I studied acting in high school and college, soon after graduation,
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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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The dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.
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Once 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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The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system.
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Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond.
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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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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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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
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