"We must forge a socialist man and woman in Cuba."

"The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths."

"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves."

"I am a revolutionary, and I will be a revolutionary until the last day of my life."

"The example of Cuba will be a lesson and a warning to all those who, for any reason, might wish to delay the liberation of their peoples."