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 LEWISDo they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
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 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 LEWISYou think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
AL LEWISI was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
AL LEWISOscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal – they can both sleep under the bridge. Right?
AL LEWISI worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
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 LEWISI know who I am. I don’t have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did.
AL LEWISI went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
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 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 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.
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