I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.
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.
I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.
Most people give Kennedy a passing grade, a good grade on the Cuban Missile Crisis handling, but what they don't realize, if he had had strength, if he had showed strength before, there would never have been a Cuban Missile Crisis.
I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.
The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.
I'm black. I'm Latina. My mom is Cuban. Afro-Cuban. My dad is white and Australian.
I'm from a Cuban family, so we're used to talking really loud. You come to a Cuban restaurant anywhere in Miami, and we're practically screaming at each other.
There is no other country that has the Cuban Adjustment Act; that's why it's called the Cuban Adjustment Act and not the Nicaraguan Adjustment Act.
My mom can cook really good Cuban food, so we go eat there on the regular. And the Cuban coffee - you know how you drink coffee at a really young age.
My view of myself doesn't change. I know who I am. I'm Cuban American; both my parents are Cuban - one was a little browner than the other one. That's who I am. I feel sorry that it's taken so long for the film industry to figure it out and to catch ...
Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.
I want to make this world perfect.
Creativity is an import-export business.
The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.
The roots of Cuban music are in my head.
I don't believe in retirement.
Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.
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.
Prayer is man's greatest power!
Sports is like a war without the killing.
