"Humor is laughing at what you haven't..." - Quote by Langston Hughes
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.
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“Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?”
“Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that will not stock a book by a Negro writer, not even as a gift? There are towns where Negro newspapers and magazines cannot be sold except surreptitiously. There are American magazines that have never published anything by Negroes. There are film studios that have never hired a Negro writer. Censorship for us begins at the color line.”
“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”
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“The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.”
“He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.”
“Well, the end of another busy day. I can't wait till I get back to bed. If that don't work I'll try to sleep.”