Remembering Che Quotes

“Surprisingly, I came closer to really knowing myself, not because I feared death, because we were always aware of it, but rather because I was always challenging myself about what had led me there and about how strong my commitment really was.”
― Aleida March, Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara

“The siren songs have ended, and so has my inner conflict. Now the flag is raised for my last race. The speed will be such that screams will accompany me. The past has come to an end; I am the future in progress.

Don’t call me, because I won’t be able to hear you. But I will sense you on sunny days, under the renewed caress of bullets. [...]

I will keep a look out for you, in the way a dog remains alert while it’s resting, and I will imagine every part of you, piece by piece, and altogether.

If one day you feel the force of an overbearing presence, don’t turn around, don’t break the spell, just keep on preparing my coffee, and let me experience you in that instant, for always.”
― aleida march , Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara

“Often school could be a place of prejudice and other barriers. There was discrimination based on gender, and the school had a militaristic atmosphere and authoritarian approach to discipline. For example, they would close the windows to stop the girls making contact with the boys. That is how schools were in those days.”
― Aleida March, Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara

“Death was, however, a daily occurrence in the countryside, the result of the government’s corruption, neglect and apathy toward those living in the country. The rural poor often died because of a lack of medical care, often without ever knowing the exact cause of death. There were no roads or public transport in rural areas, and this meant a lack of access. Often the sick person could not be reached in time.”
― Aleida March, Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara

“I sometimes agreed with my mother, who saw it as the end of the world. We were surrounded by uncles and aunts and other poor neighbors, who had no hope for a better future.”
― Aleida March, Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara

“My world was the small piece of land that my father worked with much determination and, which despite his great efforts, was never very productive.”
― Aleida March, Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara

“Before I found myself in the guerrilla camp in the Escambray, my life had been like that of most other campesinos.* Poverty, humiliation and violence were bitter realities in our lives.”
― Aleida March, Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara

“In a letter he sent from the Congo in 1965, a letter full of nostalgia, he revealed what he had thought when he saw me the first time and in the days that followed. He described how he felt torn between his role as a strictly disciplined revolutionary and as an ordinary man with emotional and other needs.”
― Aleida March, Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara

“And we will continue together until the road vanishes…”
― Aleida March, Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara

“He told her they needed an official divorce because he was going to narry a Cuban woman he had met during the struggle. I didn't quite understand his handwriting, so I asked him who was the young woman he intended to marry. He looked at me with surprise and said that it was me. The fact is, up until that moment, we had not discussed marriage.”
― Aleida March, Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara

“We continued together without incidents. Sometime later, in one of our rare private me confessed that when he had seen me in such danger, he realized how much I meant to him. Of course, that was hardly the time for such a confession.”
― Aleida March, Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara

“Years later, Che confessed that, at the time, he thought I had been sent by the leadership of the movement in Las Villas (largely made up of right-wing people), to monitor him because of his reputation as a communist. That was why he was reluctant to let me join the guerrilla unit; moreover, he was unaware that I couldn't return to the city.”
― Aleida March, Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara

“After being introduced to the commander, she took me asked me what I had thought of him. I replied somewhere that I thought he wasn't bad, and that I found his penetrative gaze rather intriguing. I saw him as an older man. Marta, on hand, commented on his beautiful hands, something noticed at the time, but did later on. After all, we were women meeting a rather attractive man.”
― Aleida March, Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara

“We the dispossessed, for the first time felt ourselves masters of our own destiny. But, as Che had always warned, from that moment the real revolutionary struggle would begin.”
― Aleida March, Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara