I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.

If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis...; discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest.

Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.

I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.