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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
How do you say 'delicious' in Cuban?
Cubans were getting a monthly ration of five pounds of rice, three pounds of beans, five eggs, one chicken, half a pound of coffee, milk for children up to age seven, one bar of soap, two rolls of toilet paper, three packs of cigarettes.
My family's from Eastern Europe.
Everyone has a Latino inside them.
It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of homophobia. Homosexuals have been notoriously persecuted under Fidel's government.
North Americans don't understand ... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
The Ecuadorian, Mexican, Dominican and Salvadorian cooks I've worked with over the years make most CIA-educated white boys look like clumsy, sniveling little punks. In
I've been to Cuba many times.
Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.
My family came from Ecuador.
The neighbors were more than neighbors [on Cuba]. They were like part of the family.
The rich. You know why they're so odd? Because they can afford to be.
In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.
I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.
Educated fools; from uneducated schools.
Ordinary French people. Citizens of fear.
people, the kind of man who
I'm crafting a vision of my life that involves creativity. And Cuban society allows me to do this. I know it's harder in the U.S. where so many people are just grateful to have a job.
Jamaicans are so unflappable, they might as well be Minnesotans.
My family were from Jamaica.
All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.
For centuries, Cuba's greatest resource has been its people.
In Texas, if your name is Carlos, you're a Mexican. In Florida, you're a Cuban. In New York, you're a Puerto Rican. And I come here and I find out I'm an Eskimo.
We knew Down South. Everyone had one. Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico.
My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.
A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.
The Spanish and Cuban people have the same kind of wakes the Irish do. They go on for two or three days and drink a lot of booze and eat a lot of food.
Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface.
of body, tall Negroes from Africa, small wizen-faced Jews,
All 'people of one blood' who made homeplace in isolated landscapes where they could invent themselves, where they could savor a taste of freedom.
A group of Cuban Americans denounced the Castro government as a fascist regime that monitors and scrutinized its citizens' everyday existence. And then they excused themselves to go watch Big Brother.
Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards.
In Cuba and specifically in Havana there's a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected.
I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.
I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans, who are trained to kill me, so don't think for one second that you can come down here, flash your badge and make me nervous.
I know the Haitian people because I am the Haitian people.
Laistry ... I can't even say that. What would you call them in English?"
"Canadians.
The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.
Southerners...People partial to front porches, peaches, cool breezes, fast horses, sweet tea, bourbon, beautiful women and handsome men!
Foreign visitors ... how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.
Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
My mother's Cubana/Irish and my dad's Catalan. And that blows my mind.
I come from French Cajun Jewish people.
Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.
Of course, anything as tasty as a Cuban sandwich, much the same as Italian Pizza or Chinese Chop Suey, soon spreads into the general population.
What would you call them in English?" She thought about it for a moment. "Canadians,
Summer Islanders. That's how they mourn. They answer death with life.
I've actually been asked once or twice if I had some Puerto Rican in me.
If we publicly declare that Cuba is a threat to our security, forty million Mexicans will die laughing.
The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore,
In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.
America. Members of the generation that once embraced sex, drugs and rock-and-roll
Well, guess what, I'm Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work.
a bunch of depressed, overeducated shut-ins, but they seemed human to her.
I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.
I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.
A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.
Where did all these damn indians come from?
My grandmother would shanghai pilots at the Havana airport so they'd bring me cartons of mango baby food
the only kind I'd eat. I learned to eat peach later. And in every carton, she'd slip in a Cuban record.
Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.
President Kennedy stocked up on Cuban Cigars just before signing the embargo.
Americans who may be going to the largest embassy we've ever had.
The Italians ... you can't find one who is honest.
Gringos! They have copied us again
The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.
I am willing to bet that there are some Puerto Ricans who don't know about [their status].
The Germans, a race eager for war.
We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists do, there's more space for them to do their art without having to discuss it in terms of racial identity.
What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.
I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country.
who lived along the U.S. side of the border.
They (the people of Puerto Rico) are truly the sweetest people on earth.
Natives of the Florida Keys often refer to themselves as Conchs, and for good reason: They have been drinking.
Both my parents came with their parents during the revolution in Cuba. Both my parents were born in Cuba. They left everything over there. My family got stripped of everything - of their land, of their jobs, everything.
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I'll know America is in bad shape when Cubans in Miami get in the water and swim back to Cuba.
Cuban agents are assigned to a Catholic Church where their instructions are to beat, jail and intimidate the Ladies In White that attend Mass and who afterwards peacefully take to the streets calling for the release of their husbands, sons and fathers who are political prisoners.
The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea ... are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them.
I respect the path Cuba chooses to take.
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.
I begged Ana to shut them up, come out as Cuban, play the jail card. But she refused to claim that authority. 'It will mean you, as a Kentucky girl, have nothing valuable to say about Cuba. And Cubans have nothing to say about the rest of the world.
Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.
I am a Cuban mother, and you do not let your cubs get into trouble without you trying to help them all the way.
You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.
There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.
My mom's Puerto Rican. That's why I'm so lively and colorful.
Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.
The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.
Then I remember:These people are Brazilian-they come out of the womb salsa-ing to the rhythm of the contractions.
When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!
The roots of Cuban music are in my head.
Cuba seems to have the same effect on US administrations as the full moon has on werewolves.
White, black and yellow men - they all cry salt tears.
There are Russians, and then there are Russian ballerinas from the Kirov.
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I think Canadians, they may be offended that I pointed out that they're stalking us. But at least we're paying attention.