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.

It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not to engage in physical resistance, armed resistance to oppression, is to serve the interests of the oppressor; no more, no less. There are no exceptions to the rule, no easy out.

People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?

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

I am a Black revolutionary woman, and because of this i have been charged with and accused of every alleged crime in which a woman was believed to have participated. The alleged crimes in which only men were supposedly involved, i have been accused of planning. They have plastered pictures alleged to be me in post offices, airports, hotels, police cars, subways, banks, television, and newspapers. They have offered . rewards for my capture and they have issued orders to shoot on sight and shoot to kill.

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.