The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.
Source: Interview, 1933, published in Obras Completas, vol. 3 (1986). Quoted in: Poet in New York, Introduction (1940; tr. 1988).
-- Federico Garcia Lorca, (Jun 5 1898-1936), Spanish poet, dramatist; He was noted for his poems of death and for his dramatic trilogy: Blood Wedding,1933; Yerma, 1934; and The House of Bernarda Alba, 1936.