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I'm Cuban. Both my parents are Cuban. My grandparents are, too. Although I have no idea where Fit comes from.

I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.

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

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.

I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.

Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background.

Both my parents came with their parents during the revolution in Cuba. Both my parents were born in Cuba. They left everything over there. My family got stripped of everything - of their land, of their jobs, everything.

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.

My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in a white picket neighborhood.