Cuban Quotes - Page 8

• Cuban public is special - they participate, generate a lot of energy, both in a positive and negative sense. It's always an expressive audience.

  Fernando Perez

  Special, Energy, Negative

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There was a time when emigration from Cuba was a definitive separation. There were no visits. In the '80s, '90s, it was incredibly difficult. I'm not the only one interested in this as a filmmaker - other Cuban filmmakers have dealt with it, too, because it's such a part of our reality.

  Fernando Perez

  Reality, Cuba, Emigration

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's often pointed out that in Cuban cinema there are too many comedies, but a sense of humor is so much part of the Cuban idiosyncrasy. Curiously, the films that have been censored the most have been humorous.

  Fernando Perez

  Humorous, Cinema, Comedy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Cubans joke and satirize everything that life gives them, and I think that's a positive characteristic.

  Fernando Perez

  Thinking, Giving, Characteristics

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think it's just been a core part of the Cuban revolution to have a very high level of internationalism. I mean, these cases you've mentioned are cases in point, but the most extreme case was the liberation of Africa. Take the case of Angola for example, and there are real connections between Cuba and Angola-much of the Cuban population comes from Angola.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  "Chomsky on Haiti". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.counterpunch.org. March 9, 2010.

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• South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime there. They were trying to protect Namibia, to protect apartheid, and nobody did much about it; but the Cubans sent forces, and furthermore they sent black soldiers and they defeated a white mercenary army, which not only rescued Angola but it sent a shock throughout the continent-it was a psychic shock-white mercenaries were purported to be invincible, and a black army defeated them and sent them back fleeing into South Africa.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fall, Army, Psychics

  "Chomsky on Haiti". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.counterpunch.org. March 9, 2010.

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• Cuban artists had, for a while, a privileged position within Cuba that is probably going to become slightly less restricted to them. I think they'll continue to join the international art world, so those people who are extremely successful will become even more so and those who are struggling will continue to struggle.

  Rachael Price

  Art, Struggle, Successful

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Rachael Price

  Art, Race, Space

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• How can I justify the Cuban Adjustment Act when there are people coming from Cuba saying that they come - that they have - that they should be treated differently from other migrants? But they're going back to that country.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, People, Migrants

  Source: www.univision.com

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• The reason we have a Cuban Adjustment Act is because, at the beginning, they [migrants] were fleeing political persecution.

  Marco Rubio

  Political, Migrants, Fleeing

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• I've always said that the Cuban regime will not change politically.

  Marco Rubio

  Regimes, Said

  Source: www.univision.com

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• They're willing to accept changes on the part of the U.S. that contribute to more money entering Cuba so they can benefit. But in terms of political changes on the island, an opening, etc., that won't happen, that won't change, and I've always said that, from the beginning. I've even said that it doesn't matter how many tourists who to Cuba, how many times the President visits Cuba; there won't be any changes in the Cuban government's posture. And that is the same as always.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, Islands, Political

  Source: www.univision.com

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• The Cuban people must know that they have a friend and partner in the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  America, People, United States

  "Cruz and Rubio condemn Castro as questions remain over Cuba-US ties" by Jessica Glenza, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2016.

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• The Cuban economy is a disaster. No, I do not praise Fidel Castro.

  Bernie Sanders

  Praise, Economy, Disaster

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Many who later lost faith in Fidel Castro can remember how they once admired the man who needed just a dozen men to launch the Cuban revolution.

  Tom Gjelten

  Men, Revolution, Dozen

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Cuba is actually one where I am more optimistic because of the unique nature of Cuba - 90 miles off our shore with a massive ex-patriot population, now Cuban-American population that still have deep links to the island. There I am more confident that over time that the winds of commerce and telecommunication and travel start shifting the nature of that regime. But that's a small country which has almost a unique relationship to us.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Optimistic, Unique

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I believe that the boycott that we have against Cuba is counterproductive, and it also makes the twelve million or so Cuban people suffer unnecessarily just because of a foolish policy of the United States.

  Jimmy Carter

  Believe, People, Suffering

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Comandante Fidel Castro loves Cuba! But his love for humanity, if you'll pardon the expression, trumped his love for Cuba: He was universal; he was an internationalist, and he put that spirit in the hearts and minds of the Cuban people through the Cuban Revolution.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Heart, Expression, People

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Fidel Castro had universal health care for all Cubans, and universal education for all the Cuban people, no money required. This was his challenge.

  Louis Farrakhan

  People, Challenges, Education For All

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Richard Nixon even before becoming president, before meeting Henry Kissinger, he said, "This is ridiculous. Communism is nationalist. The Chinese and Russian and Yugoslav and Cuban and - none of these communists get along, and the Koreans and the Vietnamese, and we can do business with them." And then he opened up to China, and that's when the Cold War started.

  Robert Scheer

  War, Chinese, President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There is us living the Cuban experience that we believe is ours. We do not believe that it is perfect, but it has been above all counting truly on the people, which is where the origins of true democracy lie.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Lying, Believe, Perfect

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• I could never say Rza's trash. But he didn't come with the right formula on '8 Diagrams.' I think 'Cuban Linx 2' will have the Clan back where they need to be, but then it's up for the Clan to be back where they need to be, too. 'Cos it ain't just the album, you know what I mean? It's everything.

  Raekwon

  Mean, Thinking, Albums

  "The return of Raekwon". Interview with Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2009.

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• Frankly, I don't think you should perform in a plaza where thousands of Cubans have been subjected to the death penalty, by firing squad, including three young black men in 2003. What is needed in Cuba is a concert in favor of democracy, civil liberties for the people, the freedom of political prisoners, free elections and the expulsion of dictatorial power.

  Zoe Valdes

  Men, Thinking, Squad

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• I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!

  Odette Annable

  Curves, Booty, Want

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• I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.

  Oscar Nunez

  Parent, Adopted

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