I won't do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can't, it's not gonna make the team.
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- Author's profession: Comedian
- Nationality: american
- Born: April 29, 1955
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Out of the huts of history's shame. I rise. Up from a past that's rooted in pain. I rise. I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear. I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear. I rise. Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.
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