41 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

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.

You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink or do drugs. Because someday they're going to be in a hospital bed, dying, and they won't know why.

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

The definition of indecent – when it’s in long, and it’s in hard, and it’s in deep – it’s in decent.

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