Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de
I stay connected in my head. I'm spiritually and psychologically connected to African-Americans. They are my people, and that will never change.
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.
And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
The greatest danger of traditional education is that learning may remain purely verbal.
The last song was so deep and raw and pure that I could not escape. It was as if the people were singing in between the notes, weeping and joyful at the same time, and I felt like their voices or something was rocking me in its bosom, holding me like a scared kid, and I opened up to that feeling-and it washed over me.