Tourism has affected Cuba, because tourists come and they bring racist, sexist ideas. They bring a whole vision that there are rich people all over the world and that's the way it should be.

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.

To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

With prayer, we shall keep our heart pure.

The impossible is possible in your mind and in your dreams.

Hmm, I officially amend my previous statement. Clearly one of them is that stupid.

I think when you die, you die.

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.

Intelligence in the cat is underrated.

People say 'follow in the footsteps' but I always find that a strange expression because what you want to do is forge your own path, so to speak.

Canada is a vast and empty country.