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Redd Foxx Quotes

d. 1991 United States

John Elroy Sanford (9 December 1922 – 11 October 1991), most widely known under his stage name Redd Foxx, was an American comedian famous for his risqué comedic routines, and his starring role on the television sitcom Sanford and Son.

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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.

The Redd Foxx Encyclopedia of Black Humor (1977)

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

My first wife, I'll never forget her — and I've tried.

We were poor. If I wasn't a boy, I wouldn't have had nothing to play with.

Love. Hygiene. That's the important thing. Hygiene. The toughest thing in the world: [you] have to turn to your mate one night and say: "You gotta wash your ass!" Shit. Knowing how difficult it is, I said it for you : You Gotta Wash Your Ass.

Stage performance (1980)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Redd Foxx (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.