Miguelito, liberated from having to sing with Cugat, sounds like he just got out of jail and is letting it rip.

Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.

Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as slavery lasted.

That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.

One often reads that the 1950s was the golden age of Cuban music, but it was really one long phase, from 1937 to 1958, each year with its own splendour.

Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry.

Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.

Forgiveness is the subjective and fertile ground the acorn falls upon when gifted to ourselves and others.

Kids are flat-out freaking hilarious if you are paying attention. Not just my kid, but every kid.

Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.

To the one who delights in the sovereignty of God the clouds not only have a 'silver lining' but they are silver all through, the darkness only serving to offset the light!

People that talk about living in the real world don't even enjoy living in the real world.

If I hadn't become a golfer, I doubt I'd be wealthy, because I don't have the sort of ego that drives a person all day long. I might have wound up driving a tractor.

I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.

Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.

I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.

The Yogi must always practice.