Redd Foxx Quotes

#1. William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.

Kinky Friedman

#2. My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.

Henry Louis Gates

#3. Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.

Charley Pride

#4. 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

#5. Led Zeppelin created their music from a diet of Bert Jansch, Memphis Minnie, John Fahey, Billy Fury, Phil Spector, Richard 'Rabbit' Brown, Moby Grape, Manitas De Plata and Om Kalsoum. Those who came afterwards were content with a diet of Led Zeppelin, which is not the same thing at all.

David Hepworth

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

Redd Foxx

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

Redd Foxx

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

Redd Foxx

#9. 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

#10. May all beings be happy and free.

Chant

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

Redd Foxx

#12. 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

#13. I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

Joni Mitchell

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

Redd Foxx

#15. You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.

Redd Foxx

#16. I will never retire unless I have to.

Dolly Parton

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

Redd Foxx

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

Redd Foxx

#19. 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

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

Redd Foxx

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

Redd Foxx

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

Redd Foxx

#23. Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.

Stephen King

#24. I have fans from different cultures coming up to me saying that they don't understand what I'm singing but that they like the music.

Prince Royce

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

Redd Foxx

#26. Power people wear power like a coat of arms. If can't sense them on the spot you don't know what power is.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#27. 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

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

Redd Foxx

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

Redd Foxx

#30. I fell asleep among the beer mugs and when I woke, I couldn't think where I was.

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#31. Leaned his head back onto the plush headrest of his private limousine and shut his eyes

Sarah Price

#32. 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

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

Redd Foxx

#34. 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

#35. There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is, not the simpler it is to understand.

Susan Meiselas