Comedian 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.