The people who are running this planet are insane - they are literally destroying it. I don't know where they think they're gonna drink water, breathe air.

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

Tourism has affected Cuba, because tourists come and they bring racist, sexist ideas. They bring a whole vision that there are rich people all over the world and that's the way it should be.

The abnormal, the sick, the vicious have become more and more interwoven into the violent culture of the United States. Into the way news is seen, into the way movies are seen.

My experience in the United States was living in a society that was very much at war with itself, that was very alienated. People felt not part of a community, but like isolated units that were afraid of interaction, of contact, that were lonely.

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

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.