Redd Foxx

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

"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."

"My first wife, I'll never forget her — and I've tried."

"We were poor. If I wasn't a boy, I wouldn't have had nothing to play with."

"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."

"Foxx was really the king of comedy and timing. He had one of the fastest comedic minds on the planet."

"Redd Foxx had grown-up jokes. … You ain't never heard no Redd Foxx stand-up. Hell, you still watchin' Sanford & Son reruns."