I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good.

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

Cubans understand that theirs is a country that provides sanctuary for people fleeing oppression. As a nation, they are very proud of this stance. They don't care how much the U.S. government badgers or attacks them.

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

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

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.