Alma Guillermoprieto

“What I write about is the struggle for dignity. That's the story of Latin America.”

“I think that journalism is a craft, and it's a craft that requires a great deal of humility.”

“The most important thing for a journalist is to be curious. To be insatiably curious.”

“Reporting is about listening. It's about shutting up and listening.”

“I think memory is a story we tell ourselves, and that it's a story that is constantly being revised.”

“To write is to think. It's the only way I know how to think.”

“I'm interested in the space where the political and the personal intersect.”

“I think one of the great problems we have in the North, in the United States in particular, is a sense of superiority.”

“Violence is the ultimate failure of language.”

“I am not a person who is very good at looking back. I'm always looking forward.”

“The truth is what makes you good. You have to be brutally, ruthlessly, entirely honest with yourself and others.”

“You have to be willing to be wrong. You have to be willing to look foolish.”

“Power is not something you have. It's something you exercise.”