Fran Lebowitz
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You don't have to feed them.
You don't have to listen to them.
You don't have to.
And they're full of things that you want to know, children generally or not.
But obviously I spend all my time working in order to house them.
So they're very important to me.
That's the first time I heard of him.
There used to be a television show that was on Sunday afternoons called The David Susskind Show.
And my mother was watching it one Sunday afternoon.
I was, you know, I don't know how old I was, maybe...
I went into the room and I started watching.
I'd never seen anyone talk like that either.
And I asked my mother who he was and she said, James Baldwin.
I said, who's James Baldwin?
And she was full of disdain.
You've never heard of James Baldwin?
Now I'm thinking to myself, you know what?