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Redd Foxx
5 quotes
“If you can see the handwriting on the wall … you're on the toilet.”
Redd Foxx (1922–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Redd Foxx (1922–1991) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stage performance (1980), promoting his comedy album, You Gotta Wash Your Ass (1976).
“My first wife, I'll never forget her — and I've tried.”
Redd Foxx (1922–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We were poor. If I wasn't a boy, I wouldn't have had nothing to play with.”
Redd Foxx (1922–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in More Sex Talk : A New Collection of Ribald, Raunchy, and Provocative Quotations (2002) by James Wolfe, p. 114; similar lines were also used in the comedic routines of Rodney Dangerfield.
“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 (1922–1991) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Redd Foxx Encyclopedia of Black Humor (1977) (co-written with Norma Miller)