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.

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

We're living in a very tricky world, and unless we become analytical and expose the tricknology, people will become sucked into that. It is very easy, it is very, very easy.

I worked, studied, mothered and continued to be an activist. I found that Cuba was much different from the US; its government was genuinely trying to erase racism.

When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.

I think it's really hard to plan if you don't believe you can implement those plans.

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.