Quotes by Cuban Authors

"There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Life, Journalism

1

"I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of."

Alberto Juantorena, Cuban Athlete

Family, Love, Work, Music

1

"My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious."

Fidel Castro, Cuban Statesman

Time, Work, Idea, Crisis

1

"When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Being, Needs

1

"I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat."

Rafael Palmeiro, Cuban Athlete

Nation, Country, Play

1

"A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots."

Jose Marti, Cuban Activist

Man, Radical

1

"I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Politics, First, June, Months

"Because he'll take me to Cuba and I don't want to go to Cuba."

Elian Gonzalez, Cuban Celebrity

Want,

"It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense."

Jon Secada, Cuban Musician

Wedding, Pretty

"Puns are a form of humor with words."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Humor, Words

"Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise."

Alberto Salazar, Cuban Athlete

Being, Career, Reason, Training

"It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory."

Rafael Palmeiro, Cuban Athlete

Love, Time, Memory

"Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture."

Compay Segundo, Cuban Musician

Animals, Culture, Killing, Man

"A revolution is not a bed of roses."

Fidel Castro, Cuban Statesman

Revolution, Bed, Roses

"I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened."

Fidel Castro, Cuban Statesman

Life, Age, Man

"Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness."

Jose Marti, Cuban Activist

Man, Men, Action, Greatness, Deeds

"I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!"

Daisy Fuentes, Cuban Actress

Thought, Fun, Old, Stars

"I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character."

Daisy Fuentes, Cuban Actress

People, Character, Job

"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Nation, Country, England, Language

"I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes."

Compay Segundo, Cuban Musician

Life, People, Day, Detail

"It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you."

Jose Marti, Cuban Activist

Liberty,

"Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys."

Bert Campaneris, Cuban Athlete

Famous, Yankee

"I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it."

Al Jourgensen, Cuban Musician

Life, Living, Paris, Reality

"Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs."

Al Jourgensen, Cuban Musician

Music, Time, Drugs

"To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity."

Jose Marti, Cuban Activist

Talent, Dignity

"Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon."

Compay Segundo, Cuban Musician

Music, Thought, Europe, Grandparents

"You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place."

Daisy Fuentes, Cuban Actress

Attention, Study, Waiting

"American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Literature, American, Writing

"Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity."

Jose Marti, Cuban Activist

Death, Fire, Hatred, Pity

"Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents."

Daisy Fuentes, Cuban Actress

Discipline, Ladies, Obedience, Parents

"I am a writer of fragments."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Writing, Writer

"I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages."

Jon Secada, Cuban Musician

Community, Singing

"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ."

Fidel Castro, Cuban Statesman

Creativity, Ideas, Christ, Contradiction, Symbol

"I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game."

Rafael Palmeiro, Cuban Athlete

Want,

"Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist."

Jose Marti, Cuban Activist

Liberty, Man

"If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow."

Celia Cruz, Cuban Musician

Work, Eating

"We may train or peek for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport."

Alberto Salazar, Cuban Athlete

Perseverance, May, Race, Running

"Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded."

Al Jourgensen, Cuban Musician

Pretty, Punk

"Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men."

Jose Marti, Cuban Activist

Man, Men, Mountains, Nations

"I'm a big believer in education, period."

Jon Secada, Cuban Musician

Education,

"I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action."

Fidel Castro, Cuban Statesman

Faith, Men, Action, Revolution

"My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

God, Mother, Father, Gods

"At the moment I have my family coming out with me on the road. We have our own vehicle and it's more like a family vacation. I just stop, do some gigs, and take off. It's a lot more fun now with the family."

Dave Lombardo, Cuban Musician

Family, Fun, Now, Road

"Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played."

Dave Lombardo, Cuban Musician

Music, Genius

"Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all."

Jose Marti, Cuban Activist

Harm,

"And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background."

Jon Secada, Cuban Musician

Education, Music, Career

"I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century."

Alejo Carpentier, Cuban Novelist

Music, Being, End, Popular

"There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio."

1

"I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of."

1

"My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious."

1

"When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader."

1

"I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat."

1

"A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots."

1

"I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me."

​

"Because he'll take me to Cuba and I don't want to go to Cuba."

​

"It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense."

​

"Puns are a form of humor with words."

​

"Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise."

​

"It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory."

​

"Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture."

​

"A revolution is not a bed of roses."

​

"I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened."

​

"Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness."

​

"I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!"

​

"I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character."

​

"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England."

​

"I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes."

​

"It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you."

​

"Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys."

​

"I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it."

​

"Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs."

​

"To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity."

​

"Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon."

​

"You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place."

​

"American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter."

​

"Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity."

​

"Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents."

​

"I am a writer of fragments."

​

"I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages."

​

"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ."

​

"I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game."

​

"Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist."

​

"If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow."

​

"We may train or peek for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport."

​

"Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded."

​

"Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men."

​

"I'm a big believer in education, period."