At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

We have taken plants from the capitalist system where the most important thing was to produce, especially in Cuba.

What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.

One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created.

It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.

It is an illusion to think that the matter can be resolved through words.

We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.