Redd Foxx Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's some chopped liver. That's Jewish soul food. — Redd Foxx

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis. — Redd Foxx

You make me wish that birth control was retroactive. — Redd Foxx

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