It was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ].
AISHA HINDSLearning 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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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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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 had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
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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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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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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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I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find.
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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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I am indebted to [my grandmothers] always for cradling me in the heart of Christ and encouraging my passion to press towards the mark of the high calling on my life, wherever that takes me.
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The masterful work of the DP [Director of Photography] Kevin McKnight and his crew, and the layers and depths each actor goes to to ensure we the audience feel a human connection to these characters led me to sign my name on the dotted line.
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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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As well as the one of the baddest women to literally ever walk the land. I surrendered to her spirit.
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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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I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.
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The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you.
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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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One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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We’re living in a time where we all got to stay woke !
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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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I think we’re in a time that calls for that level of courage, that level of resolve.
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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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Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original.
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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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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] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood.
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The dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.
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