"And, of course, millions of us cross the……" — Alma Guillermoprieto
"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."
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Alma Guillermoprieto
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22 Quotes by Alma Guillermoprieto
Alma Guillermoprieto has 22 quotes on this site.
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Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consistently…
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Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.
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An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.
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For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for…
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One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.
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I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
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What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the…
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Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen…
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I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if…
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So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere…
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The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and…
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There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.
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I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss…
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes…
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I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.
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My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go…
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
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In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle,…
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Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not…
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One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even…
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