Cuba has its own moral system and priorities. That's what keeps it going, the belief that the country can control its own destiny.

And it is that one percent, the heads of large corporations, who control the policies of news media and determine what you and I hear on radio, read in the newspapers, see on television. It is more important for us to think about where the media gets its information.

Tourism has affected Cuba, because tourists come and they bring racist, sexist ideas. They bring a whole vision that there are rich people all over the world and that's the way it should be.

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.

Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.

Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.