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title: "6 Gringo Quotes by 6 authors"
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> [The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-e-anzald-a/the-gringo-locked-into-the-fiction-of-white-superiority-seized/)

[Gloria E. Anzaldúa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-e-anzald-a/)

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> [“I guess, if this was a gringo movie, you’d see some idiot get up and start clapping slowly, then the others would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-guess-if-this-was-a-gringo-movie-you-d-see-some-idiot-get-up-and/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Nobody in this band was a musician when they joined up, but everybody was in some kind of trouble. Play con entusiasmo,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/nobody-in-this-band-was-a-musician-when-they-joined-up-but-everybody/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

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> [We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-angel-gutierrez/we-have-got-to-eliminate-the-gringo-and-what-i-mean-by-that-is-if-the/)

[Jose Angel Gutierrez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-angel-gutierrez/)

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> [What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism. They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugo-chavez/what-they-have-implanted-here-which-is-really-a-gringo-custom-is/)

[Hugo Chavez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugo-chavez/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b44/hugo-chavez-2598_children_what-they-have-implanted-here-which-is-r_2824964.png)

> [“Look at the mess we've got ourselves into,' Colonel Aureliano Buendia said at that time, 'just because we invited a gringo to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/look-at-the-mess-we-ve-got-ourselves-into-colonel-aureliano-buendia/)

[Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/)

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