Redd Foxx quotes
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“Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.”
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“Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.”
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“If you can see the handwriting on the wall ... you're on the toilet.”
-- Redd FoxxSource : "'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!”
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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.”
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“A girl's legs are her best friends...but even the best of friends must part.”
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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 FoxxSource : "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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“Certain things should be yours to have when you work your way to the top.”
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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.”
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“What's the difference between a pickpocket and a peeping tom? A pickpocket snatches watches.”
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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.”
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“Do you realize that if the pilgrims have been chasing bobcats instead of turkeys.. we'd all be eating ***** on Thanksgiving?!”
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“I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.”
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“You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.”
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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 FoxxSource : Redd Foxx, Norma Miller (1977). “The Redd Foxx Encyclopedia of Black Humor”, Ward Ritchie Press
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