Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.

To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.

Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

I would like to say that racial attitude and prejudice are probably here...It is very difficult to act this out - discrimination - discrimination is an act. After you have the prejudices, the disciminations come out, if there is an institution for it but the Cubans have attempted to create institutions free of discrimination.

I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.

I had a lot of time and the first year I was in prison, I tried to get the party to stop the shooting, to stop the talk about the gun thing.