Quote for the Day

Don't argue with them, ever. Cubans are born inherently wise. They don't need to read, they know everything. They don't need to travel, they have seen everything. The Cubans are the chosen people...chosen by the themselves. they pass among lesser peoples like a ghost passing over water.

Cubans are characterized individually by their sympathy and intelligence and as a group by their shouting and passion. Every one of them carries the spark of genius and no geniuses are tolerated. That's why it is easy to reunite Cubans, and impossible to unite them.

from "El Profeta," an article written in 1986, by Lundy Aguilar, retired Georgetown professor and quoted in The Boys from Dolores by Patrick Symmes.