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“Juan: [to Little] Let me tell you something, man. There are black people everywhere. You remember that, okay? No place you can go in the world ain’t got no black people, we was the first on this planet. [Slight pause] I’ve been here a long time. I’m from Cuba. Lotta black folks in Cuba. You wouldn’t know that from being here, though. I was a wild little shorty, man. Just like you. Running around with no shoes on, when the moon was out. This one time, I ran by this old...this old lady. I was runnin’ and hollerin’, and cuttin’ a fool, boy. This old lady, she stopped me. She said...[pauses, imitates an old lady’s voice] ‘Runnin’ around, catching up all that light. In moonlight, black boys look blue. You blue, that’s what I’m gon’ call you. ‘Blue’.’

Little: So your name ‘Blue’?

Juan: [Chuckles] Nah.

[Another pause]

Juan: [to Little] At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can’t let nobody make that decision for you.”
— Juan, Moonlight
Tagged: Black People, Cuba, Moonlight, Blue, Nicknames
“Since its very genesis, this country has been an incubator for dreamers, especially hopeful immigrants. As far back as I can remember, I wanted to be a performer, to make it in show business. And when I was cast as Anita in the 1961 film version of West Side Story — a major production — I knew the American dream could happen for people like me. ”
— Rita Moreno, Rita Moreno Talks About Her Career, Hispanic Heritage
Tagged: Melting Pot, Puerto Rico, Cuba, America, Hispanics, nation of immigrants, West Side Story, American Dream
“It’s thrilling to be part of this wonderful country, this melting pot, and being Latina — well, consider me spice in the stew. This is America, the USA, my country, warts and all, and still the best country in the world. From Puerto Rico, Cuba or anywhere else in Latin America, Hispanics are woven into the fabric of this nation. Our food, family values, music and passion are threads in its tapestry.”
— Rita Moreno, Rita Moreno Talks About Her Career, Hispanic Heritage
Tagged: Melting Pot, Puerto Rico, Cuba, America, Hispanics
“[Shaw meets a Russian general in Moscow]
Russian General: Hello.

Sebastian Shaw: [in Russian] Once again, my sympathies for your treatment at the hands of the CIA.

Russian General: These Americans are ruthless.

Shaw: Now they have their missiles placed in Turkey...I expect you'll be planning new missile sites of your own. Somewhere you know the American early-warning system won't help. I hear Cuba is lovely this time of year. And so close to Florida.

Russian General: Missiles in Cuba? You're serious? We may as well declare war.

Shaw: Maybe I wasn't clear enough. You will make this happen.

Russian General: Okay. Let's see what KGB think about this. [he picks up the phone] Hello? General Armivolkoff. [the rest of the Hellfire Club appears] It's nothing. [he hangs up and meets their demands]”
— Sebastian Shaw, X-Men: First Class
Tagged: KGB, CIA, russians, Americans, Cuba, Florida, Cuban Missile Crisis
“I like this Cuban moment.”
— Khloé Kardashian, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Season 12: Havana Good Day
Tagged: Cuba, Cuban Cigars, enjoyable, Being Present, Living In The Moment
“We have the great historic task of bringing this revolution forward, of serving as an example for the revolution of Latin America, and within the socialist camp, which is and always will be our family.”
— Fidel Castro, Fourth Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution
Tagged: Cuba, Socialism
“The revolution does not oppose religion.”
— Fidel Castro, May Day Celebration(1961): Cuba is a Socialist Nation
Tagged: Cuba
“Religion is one thing, politics another.”
— Fidel Castro, May Day Celebration(1961): Cuba is a Socialist Nation
Tagged: Cuba
“Little businessmen industrialists have credit today. The revolution has no interest in nationalizing them. The revolution has enough to do with developing the sources of wealth it now has at its disposal. The revolution feels that there can be collaboration from the little businessman and little industrialist. It believes that their interest can coincide with those of the revolution. Counterrevolutionaries have claimed that barbershops would be nationalized, even food stands. The revolution does not aim at those. The solution of those problems will be the result of a long evolution. There are some problems; sometimes tomatoes and pineapples are sold in the city at far higher prices than in the country. There is still a small plague of middlemen. The revolution still has measures to take to do away with the middleman abuse, to improve consumption for the people. But I do not want anybody to be confused. I want everybody to know what to expect.”
— Fidel Castro, May Day Celebration(1961): Cuba is a Socialist Nation
Tagged: Cuba
“Fruits of the revolution are seen everywhere. The first to parade today were the children of the Camilo Cienfuegos school center. We saw the Pioneers parade by with the smile of hope, confidence, and affection. We saw the young rebels parade by. We saw the women of the federation go by. We saw children from numberless schools created by the revolution parade. We saw 1,000 students from the 600 sugar-cane cooperatives who are studying artificial insemination here in the capital. We saw young people, humble people, parade with their uniforms of the school center where they are learning to be diplomatic representatives of the future.”
— Fidel Castro, May Day Celebration(1961): Cuba is a Socialist Nation
Tagged: Cuba
“Long live the Cuban working class! Long live the Latin American sister nations! Long live the nation! Fatherland or death! We shall win!”
— Fidel Castro, May Day Celebration(1961): Cuba is a Socialist Nation
Tagged: Cuba
“The hypocrisy of Western politicians and a large group of mediocre leaders is so huge that it would not fit in the Atlantic Ocean. Any measure that Cuba adopts for the purposes of its legitimate defense is reported among the top stories in almost all of the media. On the other hand, when we pointed out that during the term in office of a Spanish head of government, dozens of ETA members were executed without trial, without anyone protesting or denouncing it before the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, or that another Spanish head of government, at a difficult moment in the war in Kosovo, advised the U.S. president to step up the war, increase the bombing and attack civilian targets, thus causing the deaths of hundreds of innocent people and tremendous suffering for millions of people, the headlines merely stated, "Castro attacks Felipe and Aznar". Not a word was said about the real content.”
— Fidel Castro, Cuba's achievments and America's Wars
Tagged: Cuba, War Against Cuba, The West Vs. Cuba
“What is Cuba’s sin? What honest person has any reason to attack her?”
— Fidel Castro, Cuba's achievments and America's Wars
Tagged: Cuba, War Against Cuba
“We had seven years of tyranny. Seven years, and nobody came to give us freedom; we had to win it with our sacrifices. Governments did not help us--we were helped by the peoples. The peoples of all America sympathized with us; the peoples of all America were our friends. And now they are trying to take away the only friends we had; they are trying to take away the peoples, trying to alienate peoples from us by telling them that we are carrying out mass executions, without trials, of Batista supporters.”
— Fidel Castro, When the people rule
Tagged: Cuba
“Today, after this extraordinary demonstration; today, after the satisfaction we feel at seeing this support from the people; today, as we feel such pride at being Cuban and belonging to this people, one of the world's finest peoples; today, on behalf of all and in the name of the revolutionary government and the fighters of the rebel army, I want to say thank you to my people. Thank you very much.”
— Fidel Castro
Tagged: Cuba, Thanking Cuba, Cuban Pride
“Good, Merry Christmas, George. And bring me back some of those cigars in the cedar boxes, you know the ones with the fancy rings? I love those fancy rings. They kind of distract you while you're smoking. The red and yellow are nice. It looks good against the brown of the cigar. The Maduro, I like the Maduro wrapper. The darker, the better, that's what I say. Of course, the Claro's good, too. That's more of a pale brown, almost like a milky coffee. I find the ring size very confusing. They have it in centimeters which I don't really understand that well...”
— George Steinbrenner, Seinfeld, Season 6: The Race
Tagged: Cigars, Cuban Cigars, Maduro, Cuba
“I am more than anything a Jew, a Russian Jew, he told his friend. I know a communist revolution when I see one, and this is a communist revolution.”
— Meyer Lansky, “HAVANA NOCTURNE”
Tagged: Communism, Cuba
“As President of the United States, I’ve called on our Congress to lift the embargo. (Applause.) It is an outdated burden on the Cuban people. It's a burden on the Americans who want to work and do business or invest here in Cuba. It's time to lift the embargo.”
— Barack Obama, Remarks by President Obama to the People of Cuba, March 22, 2016
Tagged: Cuba, Obama: Second Term, international politics, History, America, International Relations
“I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas. I have come here to extend the hand of friendship to the Cuban people.”
— Barack Obama, Remarks by President Obama to the People of Cuba, March 22, 2016
Tagged: Cuba, Obama: Second Term, international politics, History, America, International Relations
“Havana is only 90 miles from Florida, but to get here we had to travel a great distance -- over barriers of history and ideology; barriers of pain and separation. The blue waters beneath Air Force One once carried American battleships to this island -- to liberate, but also to exert control over Cuba. Those waters also carried generations of Cuban revolutionaries to the United States, where they built support for their cause. And that short distance has been crossed by hundreds of thousands of Cuban exiles -- on planes and makeshift rafts -- who came to America in pursuit of freedom and opportunity, sometimes leaving behind everything they owned and every person that they loved.”
— Barack Obama, Remarks by President Obama to the People of Cuba, March 22, 2016
Tagged: Cuba, Obama: Second Term, international politics, History, America, International Relations

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