You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
AL LEWISYou think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
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 LEWISThe ruling class is smarter than you, and they’re more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain.
AL LEWISI’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
AL LEWISI have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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 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 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.
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 LEWISIf anything I consider myself an anarchist.
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 LEWISI think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there.
AL LEWISThe struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
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