Just before I left [Cuba], I was about to transfer to the university. I had decided I had had enough experience in work in the manual areas. But then I got word from the United States that I could return...that my party had gathered enough information about the false charges that were against me for me to return to the United States.

We always had a central committee. They were mesmerized by Eldridge Cleaver.

I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws.

The neighbors were more than neighbors [on Cuba]. They were like part of the family.

There is a very strong socialist movement in Jamaica. I was in Jamaica years ago. All the talk, all day they talk politics. The literacy rate is very low. Everyone is so interested in politics, more than those who can read in the United States.