I 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 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 LEWISThe ruling class is smarter than you, and they’re more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain.
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 LEWISBecause if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
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 went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
AL LEWISIf anything I consider myself an anarchist.
AL LEWISI know who I am. I don’t have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did.
AL LEWISI was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
AL LEWISAs long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others ‘you failed,’ you didn’t fail.
AL LEWISThe struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
AL LEWISAmerica gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
AL LEWISI’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
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 worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
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