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Quote by Langston Hughes
Humor is laughing at what you havent got when you ought to have it

Humor is laughing at what you havent got when you ought to have it. – Langston Hughes

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Negroes – Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day – They change their mind. – Langston Hughes

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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. – Langston Hughes

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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves. – Langston Hughes

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All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, Id be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover. – Lenny Bruce

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I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant. – Walter Isaacson

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All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way. – Patrick Warburton

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The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him. – Karen Hughes

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