Langston Hughes Quote

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.


The Book of Negro Humor (1966)


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...

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...

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...

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...