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

Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.

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.

I stay connected in my head. I'm spiritually and psychologically connected to African-Americans. They are my people, and that will never change.

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

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

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.