Cuban Quotes - Page 4

• The Cuban Revolutionary Government has been generous and very considerate to me and my family. I lived in Santa Clara for a few months because I wanted to work in the countryside and get to know the country better.

  Huey Newton

  Country, Government, Months

  Source: www.afro.com

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• I worked in the mechanical factories repairing cement trucks. The Cuban government wanted me to work in the university as a teacher in literature, but I declined because I wanted a more sense of the countryside.

  Huey Newton

  Teacher, Government, Literature

  Source: www.afro.com

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• I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

  Fidel Castro

  Thinking, People, Community

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• Cubans understand that theirs is a country that provides sanctuary for people fleeing oppression. As a nation, they are very proud of this stance. They don't care how much the U.S. government badgers or attacks them.

  Assata Shakur

  Country, Government, People

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• Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. Being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence. I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there.

  Kat Dahlia

  Strong, Growing Up, Latin

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• It is so important for me to keep authentic Cuban sounds alive. All of these great artists have changed the landscape of Latin music and it's an honor to have them on this album ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007]. I believe this album will expose a new generation to the richness of Cuban music.

  Gloria Estefan

  Latin, Believe, Artist

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• The music is one of the beautiful things that has survived the Castro regime. I have played for audiences all over the world but I've never played for a Cuban audience. For [husband] Emilio and me, the music is the one tie to our homeland.

  Gloria Estefan

  Beautiful, Husband, Ties

  "Estefan: Cuba won't be free until Fidel dead". "Boston Herald" Newspaper, March 12, 2008.

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• We know next to nothing about the relationship between Chavez and Raul Castro. One thing, though, is certain. The Cuban military and political elite do not regard Chavez as a logical successor to Fidel Castro in Latin America.

  Mark Falcoff

  Military, Latin, America

  "Post-Fidel Plans for U.S.-Cuba Relations, Migration Policy". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2007.

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• Younger Cuban Americans who have decided to go to the island always come back telling me "that isn't the country my grandparents have told me about."

  Mark Falcoff

  Country, Islands, Grandparent

  "Post-Fidel Plans for U.S.-Cuba Relations, Migration Policy". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2007.

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• Cuban mechanics obviously have to be the best mechanics in the world.They're going to figure out all sorts of things to do.

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  World, Being The Best, Mechanic

  "In Cuba, Hints of Dramatic Change Emerge from Fidel Castro". "PBS Newshour" with Margaret Warner, www.pbs.org. September 15, 2010.

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• Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government.

  Saul Landau

  Government, Trying, Pay

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• If you're not smart enough to know what Fidel meant during the Cuban revolution, that - when they were on the Granma - Fidel was already a rock star in Cuba, and how important that was to the indigenous population, then you're not paying attention.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Stars, Smart, Rocks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62, neither made it because of the Cuban missile crisis.

  David Maraniss

  Cuban Missile Crisis, October, Speak

  "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.

  Kat Dahlia

  Strong, Growing Up, Latin

  "Exclusive Song Premiere And Interview: ‘Fireman,’ Kat Dahlia". Interview with Marcus Holmlund, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2013.

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• Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss
  Can never hope to wage a Global Mission.
  No Holy Wars for them. The most the small
  Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.

  Robert Frost

  War, Giving, Nuisance

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• President Kennedy didn't negotiate out of the Cuban missile crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn't have the cards.

  Colin Powell

  War, President, Cards

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• The oil spill is getting bad. There is so much oil and tar now in the Gulf of Mexico, Cubans can now walk to Miami.

  David Letterman

  Oil, Mexico, Miami

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• There were so many Cuban-Americans upset that we were going to Cuba and I was curious to see why they were so angry, and anti-Castro. I found out as soon as we got there. The people were treated terrible. The conditions were terrible. I can see why people risk their lives and limbs to get out. (Fidel Castro) lives like a king and won't help anybody, and has everybody scared to death. Nobody lives a normal life. It was still a good experience, but I thought we should just play that one game.

  Albert Belle

  Kings, Games, Play

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• 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.

  Carlos Mencia

  New York, Florida, Texas

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• As the United States begins a new chapter in our relationship with Cuba, we hope it will create an environment that improves the lives of the Cuban people, not because it is imposed by us, the United States, but through the talent and ingenuity and aspirations, and the conversations among Cubans from all walks of life so they can decide what the best course is for their prosperity.

  Barack Obama

  Life, People, United States

  "Barack Obama and Raúl Castro's handshake captured by cameras" by Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2015.

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• Year after year, an ideological and economic barrier hardened between our two countries, meanwhile, the Cuban exile community in the United States made enormous contributions to our country, in politics, in business, culture and sports.

  Barack Obama

  Sports, Country, Years

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• President Obama's actions are an unconscionable betrayal of America's fundamental values and a profound insult to the oppressed Cuban people.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Betrayal, America, People

  "Florida's Cuban Americans Rejoice At U.S. Policy Overhaul" by Zachary Fagenson and David Adams, www.businessinsider.com. December 17, 2014.

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• I found that people had all kinds of levels of consciousness, all kinds of levels of education, but that Cubans in general were very educated politically. I could go sit in a bus and get into a conversation with someone and that person had a wealth of knowledge. And energy!

  Assata Shakur

  Wealth Of Knowledge, People, Energy

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• The US government's most acute fear is that other countries are going to follow the Cuban example. They want everybody to know that if you follow this example we will attack you in every way that we can.

  Assata Shakur

  Country, Government, Example

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• I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history.

  Assata Shakur

  Thinking, Done, Revolution

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