Racism is very characteristic of imperialism and capitalism. Hate against me has a lot to do with racism. Because of my big mouth and curly hair. And I'm so proud to have this mouth and this hair, because it is African.

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.

I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.

I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.