People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking.

To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.

People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

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.

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.