Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.
I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.
I couldn't see how we could seriously struggle without having a strong sense of collectivity, without being responsible FOR each other and TO each other.
People come telling the truth. When I ask how thing are in the States, they don't give me the okeydoke. They say, "Honey, things are hard. " It reminds me I have to keep struggling.
The people who are running this planet are insane - they are literally destroying it. I don't know where they think they're gonna drink water, breathe air.
A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.
People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
I think [Pat] Buchanan is far too easily and glibly dismissed.
We control the content of our dreams.
I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.
I'm not a very dark person.