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Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.

I was a first-generation college student as well as the first in our family to be born in America - my parents were born in Cuba - and we didn't yet know that families were supposed to leave pretty much right after they unloaded your stuff from the car.

I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.

My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.

My parents were immigrants.

I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.

My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.

I'm actually Cuban-born, born in 1956, the year Fidel Castro came into power, and my father moved my family to Miami a few years later when things were starting to look bad.

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.