Alma Guillermoprieto Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?”

“You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.”

“I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.”

“I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care.”

“So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.”