If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
AL LEWISIf you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
AL LEWISI was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
AL LEWISUnderstood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn’t read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.
AL LEWISI probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist.
AL LEWISIf anything I consider myself an anarchist.
AL LEWISI went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
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 LEWISYou think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
AL LEWISAmerica gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
AL LEWISI think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there.
AL LEWISMy secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.
AL LEWISOscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal – they can both sleep under the bridge. Right?
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 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 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 LEWISWhat motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
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