Redd Foxx Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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