“Jazz and Cuba are inexorably tied together; it's not a branch from a t...” — Arturo O'Farrill Quote

“Jazz and Cuba are inexorably tied together; it's not a branch from a tree. Latin music is part of the root of jazz.”

“Culture is a fluid, ongoing process. People tend to look at culture in a fixed time but it's constantly moving and evolving, as is the conversation between Americans and Cubans.”

“A lot of groups spend their whole cultural and aesthetic identity trying to move away from Africa, which I think is a mistake. One of the reasons I love Cuba and cultures like that is because they're not trying to move away from their African roots, they're trying to embrace them. That's part of the culture.”

“Without any direction from Congress, our judicial branch has unilaterally created and defined qualified immunity.”

“I was raised in New Jersey - Long Branch.”

“Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.”