Cuban Quotes · Page 4

I'm black. I'm Latina. My mom is Cuban. Afro-Cuban. My dad is white and Australian.

— Soledad O'Brien

I hunt and fish, and I don't fly on Lear jets, and I don't smoke Cuban cigars.

— Ed Schultz

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

— Marco Rubio

The Cuban-born Mario Algaze has a Chambian way of collapsing present and past.

— Holland Cotter

“Don't you feel like a little glass of rum? It's Cuban, like all the good stuff that kills you.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.

— Jon Secada

Nowadays, Cubans who enter from Cuba with a visa do not receive any aid.

— Marco Rubio

Being a first-generation Cuban American, my story represents the American Dream.

— Eddy Alvarez

I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from…

— Edwidge Danticat

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

— William McKinley

I want all Hispanics in the Republican Party, in the Democratic Party, whether Latin Americans, Central Americans, Cubans, Mexicans, I want us…

— Bill Richardson

Cubans must prove that they're political refugees. And if they can prove that they're really fleeing persecution, well, they would qualify as…

— Marco Rubio

My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun;…

— Bella Thorne

I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to…

— Huey Newton

I've dated interracially a lot. I grew up in Harlem, so I've dated Latins, Dominican, Guyanese, Cuban, black, white.

— Mekhi Phifer

U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe,

— Fidel Castro

I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives…

— Edwidge Danticat

Cuban agents are assigned to a Catholic Church where their instructions are to beat, jail and intimidate the Ladies In White that…

— Marco Rubio

Why do you think there's so many thousands of Cuban doctors in Florida? Because they all had to leave Cuba. Because doctors…

— Rafael Cruz

So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have…

— Tom Wolfe

I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent…

— Tariq Ali

It is important to eliminate the stigma created by American imperialism and its allies regarding the Cuban political system. That stigma must…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

A group of Cuban Americans denounced the Castro government as a fascist regime that monitors and scrutinized its citizens' everyday existence. And…

— Bill Maher

I think it's just been a core part of the Cuban revolution to have a very high level of internationalism. I mean,…

— Noam Chomsky

The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes…

— Jose Canseco

They're willing to accept changes on the part of the U.S. that contribute to more money entering Cuba so they can benefit.…

— Marco Rubio

There were so many Cuban-Americans upset that we were going to Cuba and I was curious to see why they were so…

— Albert Belle

Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.

— Carlos Beruff

The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.

— Wim Wenders

I was born in New York, but I'm of Cuban heritage. Maybe there's a little island in my blood.

— Nestor Carbonell

If you think that because you're Che, when you go into Bolivia, when people find out it's you, that they're going to…

— Steven Soderbergh

I smoke really good cigars, I don't smoke Cuban cigars. I would never do anything as Un-American as smoke a decent cigar.

— Ron White

I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic…

— Dirk Benedict

I love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We're Cuban, and it's a hot island. Why not?

— Eva Mendes

I'm half-Cuban, my mother was born in Cuba and came here as a teenager, so it's got a lot of Latin influence…

— Jamie Lynn Sigler

The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the…

— Hector Elizondo

I used to watch my Cuban mother getting ready singing 'Dos Gardenias,' so to me fashion has always been fun.

— Maria Canals Barrera

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on…

— Ruben Blades

My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice…

— Jacques Pepin

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic…

— Rachel Kushner