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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
“My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.”
— Rachel Kushner · Cuba
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“My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.”
“For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't.”
“Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.”
“I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.”
“I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.”
“Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.”
“My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.”
“Performing, not rehearsing, is a dancer's raison d'etre, and I've been lucky to 'etre' in some extraordinary places - Cuba, Paris, Mongolia. In particular, a two-week stint in Greece leaps to mind. We danced in the Acropolis's Herodes Atticus amphitheater, once a venue for gladiator spectacles.”
“I've been to Cuba many times.”
“I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.”
“It's ridiculous how the United States practically every week sanctions Cuba and then uses manipulative language to say this is 'helping' the Cuban people.”
“When you see my performances, even people that you might have known, like Nicky Barnes in 'American Gangster,' you have to get over the fact that I look like Cuba Gooding, Jr. But once you find truth in the performance, if I'm doing my job right, you believe everything.”