I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
AL LEWISI went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
AL LEWISThe ruling class is smarter than you, and they’re more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain.
AL LEWISDo they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
AL LEWISBecause if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
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 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 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 LEWISIf you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
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 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 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 worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
AL LEWISI know who I am. I don’t have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did.
AL LEWISI probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist.
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