Alma Guillermoprieto Quotes & Sayings

“I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.”

“Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.”

“The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.”

“I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.”

“There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.”

“Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.”

“The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.”

“And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.”

“If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.”

“One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.”