Cuba

🇨🇺Che Guevara

Politics

1928–1967

"The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth."

🇨🇺Anaïs Nin

Literature

1924–1940

"Love is the axis and breath of my life. The art I produce is a byproduct, an excrescence of love, the song I sing, the joy which must explode, the overabundance — that is all!"

🇨🇺Fidel Castro

Politics

1926–2016

"In Spite of Everything: Reflections on the Pan-American Games"

🇨🇺Miguel Díaz-Canel

Politics

b. 1960

"Lenin was an undisputed leader of the proletariat, political leader, researcher, scientist, founder, who made important contributions to the socialist construction."

"It’s the duty of the playwright to sneak in as many effronteries as he can. If you act completely effrontive to people, they’ll never go listen. So you gotta sneak it past them…"

🇨🇺Raúl Castro

Politics

b. 1930

"Speech by Raúl Castro" ; English translation at Escambray Digital"

🇨🇺Paul Lafargue

Literature

1842–1911

"The blood of three oppressed races runs in my veins."

"…The play does not purport to be the play of the community—it’s really about that artist’s idiosyncratic voice and what that encounter elicits in them…"

"We went to the visual and the acting. You would lose some jokes if you didn’t speak both languages, but you didn’t lose the thrust."

"In this country, in this world, racism is used both to create false differences among us and to mask very significant ones—cultural, economic, political."

"Love is not finding someone to live with. It's finding someone you can't live without."

🇨🇺Gloria Estefan

Music

b. 1957

"I'm never going to stop making music. I couldn't."

"In exile one is nothing but a ghost ... I ceased to exist when I went into exile."