What is free to me?
It is just a feeling.
It’s like how do you tell somebody how it feels to be in love.
How are you going to tell anybody who have not been in love how it feels to be in love.
Video Clip: Nina Simone documentary produced by Peter Rodis, 1970.
You cannot do it to save your life.
You can describe things, but you can’t tell him.
But you know it when it happens.
That’s what I mean by free. I have had a couple of time on stage.
When I really felt free.
And that’s some else. That’s really something else.
Oh’ I’ll tell you what freedom is to me
No fear.
I mean really No Fear.
If I could have that half of my life.
No Fear
That’s the children have not fear.
That’s’ the closest way.
That’s the only way I can describe it.
That’s not all of it.
But it is something to really, really feel.
Like a new way of seeing.
A new way of seeing something.
It looks like freedom is not always guaranteed, there are times when one attains it and there are times when one is not free. Freedom to me means being able to do what I want, when I want, with no restrictions. Freedom to me means living fearlessly because nothing and no one can stop you. Freedom to me means simply being free to just be. An article by Amanda Ndlangisa on True Love Hair Magazine, Evolution of the legendary Erykah Badu is one example of that highlights the essence of freedom being no fear, Erykah Badu’s freedom in changing her hairstyle.
What is freedom to you?
