Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.

I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.