"We also need to see black characters somewhere other than in films about slavery. We badly need something more contem…"

"The revolution opened doors for us and allowed an enormous social mobility. Many walls that blocked communication wer…"

"Very often people abroad see us talking about our free education as some sort of empty political slogan but in fact i…"

"For my family it [the revolution] meant achieving a real, tangible position in the social and political life of Cuba,…"

"one of its [society's] most sinister creatures: the practice of racial discrimination, a lever that always heightens …"

"The purpose of any piece of writing is its existence before a reader’s eyes."

"For me, writing a poem means enormous enjoyment that reaches its culmination when the poem appears in print."

"For my generation and for the generations that came after, Camilo Cienfuegos and Che Guevara preside over an irrevers…"

"For many years I have said, following the tradition of Nicolás Guillén, Fernando Ortiz and Alejo Carpentier, that who…"

"In 1959, when the revolution triumphed, I was an adolescent. I had only lived 14 years in the other society. Today, w…"