I've always been a student of different ways of looking at the world, different religions. That's been part of my survival mechanism, and also part of my curiosity as a person.

This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.

I realized that I was connected to Africa.

I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.

I'm truly blessed, because many of my friends come to Cuba. They like it here-they can relax and not worry about drive-by shootings or getting raped.

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

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