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. - Nancy Morejón

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

For my family it [the revolution] meant achieving a real, tangible position in the social and political life of Cuba, which Fidel’s bearded revolutionaries [los barbudos] made possible. Those transformations opened the doors of the university to me, something that would have been impossible, given the slender means of my parents.

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