#cuba

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

#about #accepted #already #being #century

By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#away #ending #hussein #incubator #regime

Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community. ↗

— Larry Harvey

#community #confrontation #desert #goodwill #grow

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator. ↗

— Bob Kerrey

#cuba #dictator #get #needs #rid

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

#back #cuba #europe #forgotten #grandparents

Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#bit #cuban #even #feel #great

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff. ↗

— Erich Leinsdorf

#congressman #cuba #down #everything #had

There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba. ↗

— Aaron McGruder

#america #attacks #behind #castro #cia

Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they didn't manufacture armaments in the quantities that we required. So we turned to Algeria and the Soviet Union for support. ↗

— Daniel Ortega

#armaments #army #building #came #could

Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#cuba #i #kid #know #left