We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

I think that the greatest betrayal that a revolutionary can participate in is to become like the people you are struggling against. To become like your persecutors. I think that is a betrayal and a sin.

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.

Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.

I trust Cuba as a principled country. Cuba's strength is that it has been steadfast in its commitment to the principles of liberation, freedom, of resistance to the kind of institutionalized terrorism that the United States government does every day.

We are pregnant with freedom.

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