About Cristina Saralegui: Cristina Maria Saralegui is a Cuban-born American journalist, actress and talk show host of the Spanish-language eponymous show, Cristina.
The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.
People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.
I'm very, very Spanish. I have fat cheeks on both ends. I'm sitting on my Spanish part. And it's my heart, the way I am, the way I speak. It has nothing to do with the way I look.
I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential.
I came to this country when I was 12 years old because my parents wanted to give me new opportunities to succeed. President Obama wants everyone to have the chances I had.
If I have to be compared to somebody, it is to Martha Stewart.
The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.
America was the place that said, 'It doesn't matter where you come from, it doesn't matter what your last name is, it doesn't matter if you drink cortaditos, or lattes, or coffee with milk. Here, if you work hard, anything is possible.'
To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.
We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.
