Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to prison, that ended that illusion. I had time to think.

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.

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

I think it's wrong for North America in particular, the West in general to make a comparison between the economic situation in Cuba and the extraordinarily developed industrial complex of North America.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite.