Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires. As long as we expect amerika's schools to educate us, we will remain ignorant.

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

Unless you are addressing the issues people are concerned about and contributing positive direction, they'll never support you. The first thing the enemy tries to do is isolate revolutionaries from the masses of people, making us horrible and hideous monsters so that our people will hate us

The people who are running this planet are insane - they are literally destroying it. I don't know where they think they're gonna drink water, breathe air.

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

Being in Cuba has allowed me to live in a society that is not at war with itself. There is a sense of community. It's a given in Cuba that, if you fall down, the person next to you is going to help you get up.

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