"I might be a Cuban American, but I'm……" — Jon Secada
"I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American."
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26 Quotes by Jon Secada
Jon Secada has 26 quotes on this site.
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A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about…
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And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.
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For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to…
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I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.
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I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.
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Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most…
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I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.
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I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering…
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It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.
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If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it…
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I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music…
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If there was any other place I would live, other than Miami, it would be California. It's beautiful. The weather…
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More Afro Quotes
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one of 44 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to…
— William Wells Brown
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The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being.…
— Malcolm X
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Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans…
— Thurgood Marshall
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I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps…
— Malcolm X
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Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was…
— Helen McCrory
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In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really…
— Sugar Ray Leonard
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The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the…
— Harryette Mullen
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The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man…
— Ida B. Wells
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
— Ida B. Wells
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It is not a case of our people...wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the…
— Malcolm X
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Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch…
— Colson Whitehead
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I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be…
— Miriam Makeba
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