A woman’s place is in the struggle.

There is something about Sundiata [Acoli] that exudes calm. From every part of his being you can sense the presence of revolutionary spirit and fervor. And his love for Black people is so intense that you can almost touch it and hold it in your hand.

My fantasy of Cuba was that everybody was going to be going around looking like Fidel, with green uniforms - and it was very different from my vision of how Cuba was going to be.

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.

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.

Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.

i Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth