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I Am Very Happy Here [on Cuba], But I Feel I Have Work To Do In The United States. It's Where I Can Identify With The Total World Struggle For Socialism. But I Think As A North American, As A Black North American, I Have Certain Understandings - Certain Contributions - To Make That Are Unique To The North Amerian Experience.

But Before We Die, How Shall We Live? I Say With Hope And Dignity; And If Premature Death Is The Result, That Death Has A Meaning Reactionary Suicide Can Never Have. It Is The Price Of Self-respect.

I Would Like To Say That Racial Attitude And Prejudice Are Probably Here...it Is Very Difficult To Act This Out - Discrimination - Discrimination Is An Act. After You Have The Prejudices, The Disciminations Come Out, If There Is An Institution For It But The Cubans Have Attempted To Create Institutions Free Of Discrimination.

What I'm Really Trying To Say Is That I Believed An Armed Insurrection Could Work. After I Was Shot And Went To Prison, That Ended That Illusion. I Had Time To Think.

Sometimes If You Want To Get Rid Of The Gun, You Have To Pick The Gun Up.