The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

I think that the greatest betrayal that a revolutionary can participate in is to become like the people you are struggling against. To become like your persecutors. I think that is a betrayal and a sin.

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.

Black Revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. We are shaped by our oppression. We are being manufactured in droves in the ghetto streets, places like attica, san quetin, bedford hills, leavenworth, and sing sing. They are turning out thousands of us.

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

What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.