one of my favorite things about Amílcar Cabral is that whenever he was asked if he was a Marxist/Marxist-Leninist his answer was always some variation of "why do white ppl care about that so much, stop asking, what matters is that my theory works in practice & it helps my ppl."

"Never again do we want to see a group or a class of people exploiting or dominating the work of our people. That's our basis. If you want to call it Marxism, you may call it Marxism. That's your responsibility." A journalist once asked me: 'Mr. Cabral, are you a Marxist?'"

"Is Marxism a religion? I am a freedom fighter in my country. You must judge from what I do in practice. If you decide that it's Marxism, tell everyone that it is Marxism. If you decide it's not Marxism, tell them it's not Marxism."

"But the labels are your affair; we don't like those kind of labels. People here [Europe] are very preoccupied with the questions: are you Marxist or not Marxist? Are you Marxist·Leninist? Just ask me, please, whether we are doing well in the field."

"Are we really liberating our people, the human beings in our country from all forms of oppression? Ask me simply this, and draw your own conclusions." — Amílcar Cabral, 'Our People Are Our Mountains'