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Cubanas are very strong women. So don't mess with us - don't take us for granted!

I'd like to go to Cuba.

I've been going to Cuba since the Elian Gonzalez affair.

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

I have not been to Cuba, though if you count the stories my grandma told me growing up, I've been there in my head many times. I think someday I will see it, when things are different there, but I've come to feel like I really am a Miami girl.

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.

I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.

I've been to Cuba many times.

I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.