We [Panthers] have not said much about the homosexual at all, but we must relate to the homosexual movement because it is a real thing. And I know through reading, and through my life experience and observations that homosexuals are not given freedom and liberty by anyone in the society. They might be the most oppresed people in the society.

The rest of the Third World people are seeing, that the country can make a real change. No changing or trading one master for another. The only real change would be to socialize the means of production and this is what's happening in Jamaica.

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

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.

When I was in the penitentiary after being accused of killing a policeman, I was more in the system in the penitentiary than ever.

By surrendering my life to the revolution, I found eternal life

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.