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.

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.

This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey!

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 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.

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

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