In a recent interview with theGrio’s Cortney Wills, Dyllón Burnside defined what freedom means to him.
“Freedom looks like doing exactly what it is I want to do and being exactly who it is I want to be without the pressure of outside opinions,” he said.
“I think that we don’t have a sense of freedom because we don’t allow ourselves to have it, and so nobody is going to set us free. We’ve got to liberate ourselves from thinking that someone else is going to do it before we can actually ever see it,” Burnside continued.
Check out his full response in the video above.
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