I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp.

I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.

My energy just couldn’t stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance.

Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.

We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.