Redd Foxx Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.