I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.

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.

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

I realized that I was connected to Africa.

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

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.