Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host.
It's amazing how everything here seems like it's in abundance. In Cuba, there is a shortage of everything.
The government is one thing and the country of Cuba and my people are something different completely,. . It's like the United States government and your country. You don't have to agree with the policies to be proud of your country.
I'm Cuban and I always will be.
Pitching in the Olympic Games, Pan Am Games and Central American games prepared me to pitch at the big-league level.
The day I pitch, I feel confident I can stop the other team.
Sometimes I just stand on the beach and look at the water, and Cuba feels so close it's unbelievable.
I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.
I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who has not had stories. . One knows what stories can do, how they can make up worlds and transpose existence into these worlds. . . . One learns that worlds are made by words and not only by hammers and wires.
On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.
I reached the age of 70, because I have cultivated an association of multicultural intellectuals who are informed and alert to whatever "tricknology" that's laid on us by the powers that be. These include White ethnic intellectuals- people who know their roots- as well as Native American, Asian American, Hispanic and Black intellectuals. These are thirty, forty-year associations with some of the best minds around. Minds that are ignored by the media.