An insider's look at the gritty streets of New York City, seen through the eyes of street booksellers. | dG1fTkpnSEhRcEZ2Q1U
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00:00I'm going to take a fucking chance, I'm taking a chance, because the money I got on me man
00:17is my food money, but I'm taking a chance.
00:27I'll sell Jonathan Livingston Seagull or Adolf Hitler, whichever you like, people will buy
00:35it, it's good to them, they have a right to read it.
00:38I'm going to offer the guy four dollars for all these books right here, because I got
00:57to make some money.
00:58You understand?
00:59So I'm offering four dollars for that.
01:01They're cheap.
01:02We ain't got no money, we're trying to make money.
01:04They are fucking cheap.
01:10But they were more than just inanimate objects, I mean they had a life, they had a soul, and
01:16the beauty of the book game was we didn't need a license to sell them, thanks to the
01:21good old first amendment of the United States constitution, because the first amendment
01:26guarantees every American's right to distribute literature, and also protects our freedom
01:31of speech.
01:34Sure the first amendment is a great idea, but all I really wanted to do was hang out,
01:39read books, and make a buck.
01:43The homeless man gets to be a big man, I couldn't be homeless, I'm going with John Gotti and
01:50Martin Luther King, and President Kennedy, I'm going with the big guys, I have to vote
01:59this year.
02:00You make your own fucking job hard for you, because you're always doing foul shit to people.
02:01I don't give a fuck, I'll be here, you know where I'll be at.
02:02I don't give a fuck, I'll be here, you know where I'll be at.
02:03I don't give a fuck, I'll be here, you know where I'll be at.
02:04I don't give a fuck, I'll be here, you know where I'll be at.
02:05I don't give a fuck, I'll be here, you know where I'll be at.
02:06I don't give a fuck, I'll be here, you know where I'll be at.
02:07I don't give a fuck, I'll be here, you know where I'll be at.
02:08I don't give a fuck, I'll be here, you know where I'll be at.
02:09I don't give a fuck, I'll be here, you know where I'll be at.
02:10I don't give a fuck, I'll be here, you know where I'll be at.
02:11I don't give a fuck, I'll be here, you know where I'll be at.