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

—  Redd Foxx

As quoted in More Sex Talk : A New Collection of Ribald, Raunchy, and Provocative Quotations (2002) by James Wolfe, p. 114; similar lines were also used in the comedic routines of Rodney Dangerfield.

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