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

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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.

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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The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

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Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

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The best way to worship God is to love your wife.

Victor Hugo Les Misérables (1862)

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