Lord, I’m so low down, baby, I declare I’m looking up at down. The men in the mine, baby, They all looking down at me. - Studs Terkel

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence — providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

You try to fill up your time with trying to think about other things: what you’re going to do on the weekend or about your family. You have to use your imagination. If you don’t have a very good one and you bore easily, you’re in trouble. Just to fill in time, I write real bad poetry or letters to myself and to other people and never mail them. The letters are fantasies, sort of rambling, how I feel, how depressed I am.

I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.