I know who I am. I don’t have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did.
AL LEWISI know who I am. I don’t have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did.
AL LEWISBut find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That’s the uniqueness of all of us. That’s it.
AL LEWISThe most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.
AL LEWISAs long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others ‘you failed,’ you didn’t fail.
AL LEWISEvery Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I’d take them all to dinner. All runaways.
AL LEWISThe struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
AL LEWISI have an old brain but a terrific memory.
AL LEWISWhat motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
AL LEWISI prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there’s no audience. TV, there’s no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it’s a silent response.
AL LEWISThe United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world – right after the Civil War.
AL LEWISI think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there.
AL LEWISI was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
AL LEWISAmerica gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
AL LEWISDo they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
AL LEWISI’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
AL LEWISIf you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
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