What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.

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

Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.

We had to learn that we're beautiful. We had to relearn something forcefully taken from us. We had to learn about Black power. People have power if we unite. We learned the importance of coming together and being active

To have one's race brutally treated for so many years, even after the end of slavery and segregation, people are going to rise up with violence to attain what they believe is rightfully theirs. The most important thing at this time is raising the awareness of everyone; people need to be educated everywhere about all aspects of racism and how it affects people still today.

When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.

A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.