Do they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
AL LEWISDo they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
AL LEWISIf you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
AL LEWISIf anything I consider myself an anarchist.
AL LEWISAs long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others ‘you failed,’ you didn’t fail.
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 LEWISAmerica gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
AL LEWISI have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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 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 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 worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
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 LEWISI know who I am. I don’t have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did.
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 LEWISOscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal – they can both sleep under the bridge. Right?
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