Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

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

My experience in the United States was living in a society that was very much at war with itself, that was very alienated. People felt not part of a community, but like isolated units that were afraid of interaction, of contact, that were lonely.

Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.

I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good.

The US government's most acute fear is that other countries are going to follow the Cuban example. They want everybody to know that if you follow this example we will attack you in every way that we can.

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.