
“I just want to be happy, joyous and free.”
I Just Wanna be Happy
2007, 2008
Source: Redeeming Love
“I just want to be happy, joyous and free.”
I Just Wanna be Happy
2007, 2008
Responding to a press conference question as to whether he was a "card-carrying" member of the Black Muslims, as quoted in The New York Times (27 February 1964) http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4091EF7355D17738DDDAE0A94DA405B848AF1D3; also in Sports Illustrated (9 March 1964).
Context: I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods. I don't want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was twelve, but I didn't know what I was doing. I'm not a Christian anymore. I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be... I'm free to be what I want.
If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out, originally recorded for the 1971 film Harold and Maude
Song lyrics, Footsteps in the Dark: Greatest Hits (1984)
“If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.”
Source: Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means
One Road to Freedom.
Song lyrics, Fight for Your Mind (1995)
“I wanted to be free. I wanted to express desires on my own, to shape my own little life.”
The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)