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. Alma Guillermoprieto Read Quote
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. Alma Guillermoprieto Read Quote
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. Alma Guillermoprieto Read Quote
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. Alma Guillermoprieto Read Quote
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. Alma Guillermoprieto Read Quote
I may not have a practical mind, but it’s very fixated on concrete things. I like detail. Alma Guillermoprieto Read Quote
If you’re going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you’d better die young. Alma Guillermoprieto Read Quote
One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language. Alma Guillermoprieto Read Quote
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. Alma Guillermoprieto Read Quote
