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

Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.

I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle.

Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.

My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

I am a Black revolutionary woman, and because of this i have been charged with and accused of every alleged crime in which a woman was believed to have participated. The alleged crimes in which only men were supposedly involved, i have been accused of planning. They have plastered pictures alleged to be me in post offices, airports, hotels, police cars, subways, banks, television, and newspapers. They have offered . rewards for my capture and they have issued orders to shoot on sight and shoot to kill.