I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

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

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.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

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.