Jennine Capó Crucet Quotes

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

Violet speaks Spanish and understands it. She loves Cuban food! My mom is very good at teaching her about our culture, whether it be the food or Spanish or explaining to her that she's Cuban.

Havana is a source of great pride to the Cuban people.

More than anything I want to be able to go back to Cuba, to have a house to visit there, to know my roots. Then, at last, I could sing for my people.

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.

Havana is a uniquely complicated city and contains a great many histories.

I want to say almost 100% Cubans who get mad at you are Cubans who live in Miami. And they all live comfortably in Miami. They can all go online and tell you what happened to your grandfather. In Cuba, it's a totally different thing. They can't wait for you to come. They're energized. They love your music. They want to see something new.

It didn't get any more glamorous than Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s. I used to go there when I was a waiter on a cruise ship.

I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.

I'd like to go to Cuba.

That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.

When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.

I've been to Cuba many times.

I'm from a Cuban family, so we're used to talking really loud. You come to a Cuban restaurant anywhere in Miami, and we're practically screaming at each other.

I always wanted to go to Cuba growing up. It was this fascinating, forbidden country that seemed to have a lot of politics and folklore and history behind it.

In 1958, I was shooting a movie in Florida, and I decided to go to Havana, Cuba, to see what it was like.

A road trip in Cuba is probably top of my list.

I was told before my first trip that no city in the world offered the dreams you could have sleeping in Havana. But nobody warned me that Havana also always feels like an exhausting nightmare that never quite fulfills the promise of what it's threatening you with.

Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world.

Cuba has long played an outsized role in the world's imagination.

I think there'll be a little more Cuban coffee in the governor's office once I'm up there.

My family, my background... it just parallels really nicely with a lot of social and cultural movements.

I grew up in Florida, and I have a lot of friends, close friends, who are Cuban-Americans, and I have heard the stories of their families escaping, and some of them didn't even make it to come to the United States for a better life to get away from the Castros.

My parents are from Scotland and my sister and brother were both born in Scotland so my heritage is from there.