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The revolution opened doors for us and allowed an enormous social mobility. Many walls that blocked communication were demolished, and taboos were cast out.

— Nancy Morejón Interview in A Contemporary Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolution (2007)

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We also need to see black characters somewhere other than in films about slavery. We badly need something more contemporary and more pertinent.

Interview in A Contemporary Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolution (2007)

Very often people abroad see us talking about our free education as some sort of empty political slogan but in fact it is a reality and a priority.

Interview in A Contemporary Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolution (2007)

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

Interview (2002)

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

Interview (2002)

one of its [society's] most sinister creatures: the practice of racial discrimination, a lever that always heightens racial prejudice. Both creatures make up racism.

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Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.

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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

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