I worked, studied, mothered and continued to be an activist. I found that Cuba was much different from the US; its government was genuinely trying to erase racism.

In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.

In my case, spirituality has been important to me because at periods in my life there's been very little else that I've had going. I've actually needed to call on, to feel the forces of good in this universe to be able to survive.

Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.

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

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.

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.