The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-Tung.

I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

Every story has a time to be told

You don't get happiness from success. You get success from happiness.

A place with no handholds, no landmarks, no past at all:That would have been too much like dying

Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

I don't play for records.

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.

One of my fave TV shows is Into the Badlands because martial arts staged well and magically and saturated colours and eye candy and coherent plot and world building. It has a strong diverse cast.

Someone's running your life. Most of us are on the throne of our own lives. Jesus wants to sit on the throne of your life.