You Can Only Die Once,

The Neighbors Were More Than Neighbors [on Cuba]. They Were Like Part Of The Family.

I Don't Like To Just Talk Of Africa, And South Of The Sahara In General. No, I'll Talk About The Third World In General. I'll Like To Say This - We In The United States Would Never Believe That Another Form Of Goverment - I Don't Care Even If It's Against The Racism, Etc. - It Is Hard To Get The Masses Of People To Believe Or Accept That A Socialist Government Will Relieve Them Of Most Of The Problems.

My Fear Was Not Of Death Itself, But A Death Without Meaning. I Wanted My Death To Be Something The People Could Relate To, A Basis For Further Mobilization Of The Community.

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.

I Wanted To Leave High School In 1958 And Join The Cuban Revolution. So The Only Reason I Did Not Come To Join [fidel] Castro Was Because My Mother Would Not Let Me. I Was Only 16.