Redd Foxx Quotes

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  If you can see the handwriting on the wall... you're on the toilet.

  Redd Foxx

  Wall, Handwriting, Toilets

  "'Live' Las Vegas". 8-track album by Redd Foxx, 1968.

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• This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey!

  Redd Foxx

  Honey, Bigs

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  Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

  Redd Foxx

  Beauty, Beautiful, Words Of Wisdom

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• Do you realize that if the pilgrims have been chasing bobcats instead of turkeys.. we'd all be eating pussy on Thanksgiving?!

  Redd Foxx

  Turkeys, Pussy, Bobcats

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• What's the difference between a pickpocket and a peeping tom? A pickpocket snatches watches.

  Redd Foxx

  Differences, Watches, Peeping

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• Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

  Redd Foxx

  Funny, Lying, Stupid

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• The definition of indecent – when it’s in long, and it’s in hard, and it’s in deep – it’s in decent.

  Redd Foxx

  Long, Definitions, Decent

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  Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.

  Redd Foxx

  America, People, Black

  Redd Foxx, Norma Miller (1977). “The Redd Foxx Encyclopedia of Black Humor”, Ward Ritchie Press

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  The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

  Redd Foxx

  Stupid, Home, People

  "Stephen K Amos on Redd Foxx: 'Rude, crude, funny and fearless'" by Stephen K. Amos, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2015.

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• A girl's legs are her best friends...but even the best of friends must part.

  Redd Foxx

  Girl, Naughty, Legs

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• I feel sorry for people who don't drink or do drugs. Because someday they're going to be in a hospital bed, dying, and they won't know why.

  Redd Foxx

  Sorry, People, Drug

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• You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.

  Redd Foxx

  Wish, Birth Control, Birth

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• Hey! Leave the door open will ya? The flies haven't been out all day.

  Redd Foxx

  Doors, Hey, Havens

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• I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one.

  Redd Foxx

  Knives, White, People

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• I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis.

  Redd Foxx

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• Certain things should be yours to have when you work your way to the top.

  Redd Foxx

  Way, Should, Certain

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• The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.

  Redd Foxx

  Food, Cooking, Meals

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• Sanford and Son is more than just a name. It's a condition, a dynasty, an empire. This here is the finest pile of junk of the world.

  Redd Foxx

  Son, Names, Junk

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• I'm a Sagittarian, see, I can't be fenced in. I been living in Las Vegas, greatest city in the world. I look out my window for 100 miles. In Vegas, there's nothing to do but gamble, drink or have sex. I have two of 'em.

  Redd Foxx

  Sex, Vegas, Cities

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Junk runs in the family. My granddad was a junk man in St. Louis and so was my uncle.

  Redd Foxx

  Running, Uncles, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been trying to get into the Royal Box in New York for years. They say I'm too dirty, my material is too blue. But I think Redd, the whites and blue can be a nice combination.

  Redd Foxx

  New York, Nice, Dirty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.

  Redd Foxx

  Son, Class, America

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• It's some chopped liver. That's Jewish soul food.

  Redd Foxx

  Soul, Chopped Liver, Food For The Soul

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• What's an archive, son? Is that anything like a closet?

  Redd Foxx

  Son, Archives, Closets

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