Fraser T Smith
Black Panther Albert Woodfox
Black Panther Albert Woodfox
I think about my meeting with Albert Woodfox who is on the album. He is a black panther who was incarcerated for 43 years in a six by three feet cell for a crime that he didn't commit for 23 hours a day. The thing that struck me most about asking him about the cost of freedom, was that he views freedom as a construct within your own mind. So whether you're sat like Tim Peake, looking down at the world or held in solitary confinement, Albert's argument is that freedom is available to everyone because freedom exists in your mind. I think that in these days of political and financial insecurity it's really interesting and hopeful to take away that thought from someone that has really lived on the extreme end of life, that you can actually be free in your mind.
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