Studs Terkel: Citations en anglais
“Heroic? I was scared shitless! But my ego was at stake. My vanity. "Whaddya mean, I'm dumb?"”
On his blacklisting in 1953
The Guardian interview (2002)
Contexte: A man comes from New York. He says, "These petitions, your name is on all of them: anti-poll tax, anti-lynching, friendship with the Soviet Union.... don't you know the communists were behind them?" And he said, "Look, you can get out of this pretty easy. All you got to do is say the communists duped you. You were dumb. You didn't mean it." I said, "But I did mean it!" To this day people say, "Oh, Studs, you were so heroic." Heroic? I was scared shitless! But my ego was at stake. My vanity. "Whaddya mean, I'm dumb?"
“I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you.”
The Guardian interview (2002)
Conversation with Lessing in 1969, quoted in "Doris Lessing comes to town" (15 October 1969) by Roger Ebert http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19691015/PEOPLE/71016002/1023
David R. Brower, in an interview with Terkel, but much of it is sometimes misattributed to Terkel himself.
Misattributed
The Guardian interview (2002)
“I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated.”
The Guardian interview (2002)
The Guardian interview (2002)
On seeing a 1956 performance by Billie Holiday, Talking to Myself Bk. 4 (1973) Ch. 4
Regarding his 95th birthday in "Give 'Em Hell, Mr. Terkel" (16 May 2007) by Amy Goodman http://web.archive.org/web/20070613211416/http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/51990
http://books.google.com/books?id=FucDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT25&lpg=PT25&dq=The+key+issue+is+jobs.+You+can't+get+away+from+it:+jobs.+Having+a+buck+or+two+in+your+pocket+and+feeling+like+somebody&source=bl&ots=TYKi7WaW5v&sig=-4ggLp9hfdxXUvrZIF8U1OpGMSU&hl=en&ei=0CPkS4LSJ4P68Aakk7SpBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAcQ6AEwAA Mother Jones Magazine - Sep 1995
The Guardian interview (2002)
“Chicago is not the most corrupt American city, it's the most theatrically corrupt.”
The Dick Cavett Show (9 June 1978)
On breaking his hip, as quoted in "How Studs helps me lead my life" in Roger Ebert's Journal (24 May 2008) http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/05/how_studs_helps_me_lead_my_lif_1.html#more
