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.
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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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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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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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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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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As well as the one of the baddest women to literally ever walk the land. I surrendered to her spirit.
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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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One of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO.
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The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you.
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There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to 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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The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system.
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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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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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