Latin American countries are part of the West and that it is reasonable to expect a certain degree of openness in their societies that we do not demand of, say, China or Vietnam.

Younger Cuban Americans who have decided to go to the island always come back telling me "that isn't the country my grandparents have told me about."

The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.

As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't.

I cannot personally imagine any U.S. president normalizing relations with him [Fidel Castro], as opposed to his brother, but I may prove wrong on this score.

Cuba will find its own way, regardless of what the U.S. wants. This has always been the case, not just since 1959.

We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.

After all, you couldn't go through life rolling your friendships into one gigantic snowball. You wanted different kinds of friendships, with different kinds of people.

Play to your strength

I have scars. No one alive today doesn't. But Alex's scars have to be much deeper than mine.

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?

Black is not a color.

I want to hear the chanting Around a heathen fire Of a strange black race.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.