Jon Secada (Juan Francisco Secada Ramírez) Quotes
I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.
Jon Secada
Quotes to Explore
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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
Yvette Clarke
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
Baltasar Kormakur
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In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
Yuliya Snigir
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
Barbara Mikulski
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
Ida B. Wells
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Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.
Jackie DeShannon
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
Malcolm X
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Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.
Camila Alves
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I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
Oliver Platt
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And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.
Hamilton Jordan
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I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.
Malcolm Gladwell
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I was having a bad day, and my friend said, 'Go wash your hair.' I thought it was really silly - but it made me feel so much better. It might be a small thing, but it works. Washing it off and starting over.
Kaley Cuoco
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I want to make sure that all kids get a good education and enjoy what they learn.
Patty Murray
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To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.
John Dickey
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I've used the term 'Facebook for the enterprise,' and everyone goes, 'We don't want Facebook in the enterprise,' because it conjures up that it's not secure, and it's going to be a waste of time. All these things are true, which is why Facebook is not in the enterprise.
Parker Harris
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When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
Salman Rushdie
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I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.
Jon Secada
