#puerto

In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#believe #black #country #dispossessed #i

This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance halls, and city parks, and about how his own Paps, how he had beat him, how he taught him to dance, as if we could hear Spanish in his movements, as if Puerto Rico was a man in a bathrobe, grabbing another beer from the fridge and raising it to drink, his head back, still dancing, still steeping and snapping perfectly in time. ↗

— Justin Torres

#puerto-rico #spanish

We're going to Puerto Rico, where we're gonna close. And we're so excited, we can't see straight. ↗

— Chita Rivera

#excited #going #gonna #puerto #puerto rico

However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#constitutionally #defined #federal #government #however

Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some who seek to block that path. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#express #for the people #now #path #people

Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#been #borders #century #convergence #customs

Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#been #border #fifty #five #had

I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#beans #cook #food #grew #i

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#amendment #congress #continues #national #national sovereignty

My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#chef #cook #cuban #eat #french