Cuba Quotes

• Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.

  Julia Sawalha

  Beautiful, Country, People

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• Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time.

  Pedro Juan Gutierrez

  Being Yourself, World, May

  "Cruising Through Cuba’s Past and Present" by Elizabeth Holbrook, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2017.

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• She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her current state. It's the point of view of all exiles - you have to leave the thing you cherish most.

  Andy Garcia

  Views, Want, Cherish

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• In Cuba and specifically in Havana there's a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected.

  Fernando Perez

  Energy, Unexpected, Havana

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Thinking, Cities

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• Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.

  Fidel Castro

  World, Educated

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• Sometimes I just stand on the beach and look at the water, and Cuba feels so close it's unbelievable.

  Jose Contreras

  Beach, Water, Looks

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  Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

  Fidel Castro

  Doe, Matter, Dictator

  Fidel Castro (2007). “Fidel Castro Reader”, p.105, Ocean Press

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• North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

  Fidel Castro

  Country, Humanity, Our Country

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had an amazing experience in Cuba. People there are fantastic. But I do have to say it's very nice to be back home in front of all of you capitalist pigs.

  Conan O'Brien

  Nice, Home, Pigs

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• I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing.

  Tony Oliva

  Bigs, Taxes, Big Things

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• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Needs, Dose

  Interview with Stephen Talbot, www.motherjones.com. November 1988.

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• I don't think that the reality of Cuba is perfect, but it doesn't cleave to the negativity, either, with which some people see it.

  Fernando Perez

  Reality, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Being in Cuba has allowed me to live in a society that is not at war with itself. There is a sense of community. It's a given in Cuba that, if you fall down, the person next to you is going to help you get up.

  Assata Shakur

  War, Fall, Community

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• I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Country, Government

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• Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

  Compay Segundo

  Rocks, Europe, Grandparent

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• The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  America, United States, World

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• Hugo Chavez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase - 'Patria o muerte, venceremos.' It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba.

  Mitt Romney

  Doe, Phrases, Stealing

  "Presidential candidate bungles speech in Miami". Beth Reinhard, The Miami Herald, March 19, 2007.

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• I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

  Fidel Castro

  Castro, Cuban Revolution

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Writing, Men, Wife

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.3

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• The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

  Malcolm X

  Brother, Freedom, Blood

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• I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.

  Terry McAuliffe

  Moving, Making Money, China

  "Fat Cats and Shady Deals". www.foxnews.com. January 30, 2002.

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• Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.

  Andrei Gromyko

  Country, Turkeys, Symphony

  New York Herald Tribune, June 30, 1953.

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• Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.

  Alberto Juantorena

  Country, Government, Support

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• 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.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Baseball, Strong

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