"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 …"

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

"Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn…"

"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 r…"

"the farmer takes Jill down the well & all the king's horses & all the king's men can't put that baby together again c…"

"death is where jimi hendrix is, where our revolution ended up."

"There has always been something wrong wif the tesses. The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain. The tesses paint…"

""I'm tired," I says. She says, "I know you are, but you can't stop now Precious, you gotta push." And I do."