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.

I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history.

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

Cubans understand that theirs is a country that provides sanctuary for people fleeing oppression. As a nation, they are very proud of this stance. They don't care how much the U.S. government badgers or attacks them.

Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.

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

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