Quotes About Gringos

Everything I have is natural. I do everything by instinct. I am not like the 'gringos,' with all of their apparatus.

An absence of gringos visiting the city meant that it was easy to find a taxi; they surrounded and implored me.

the gringos of McAllen stayed at home

I was apprehensive for my being conspicuous: Ignacio was right—no gringos visible, either in cars or walking.

The other thing he railed against, after 'Mexican time' and lame excuses, was bad teeth. Mexicans could not afford bad teeth if they expected gringos to take them seriously.

offered him a scholarship to the graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, all expenses paid by the U.S. Department of State. The war in Europe was devouring gringos; American schools had been drained of young men.