Coffin Ed Johnson Quotes in Come Back, Charleston Blue (1972)

Gravedigger Jones: Blink once and you're dead.

Coffin Ed Johnson: Blink twice and you're buried.

Gravedigger Jones: [Charleston Blue's coffin is opened up, and a straight razor is found, which Gravedigger picks up] Well, maybe Charleston Blue has come back... As an angel.

Coffin Ed Johnson: Ain't no black angels... Except us.

Coffin Ed Johnson: [after he saves Carol] Carol, listen to me... You're a whole lot blacker than what you think.

Coffin Ed Johnson: [to Carol] Now, you're part of the revolution... The Rabbit Revolution... And Brother Rabbit and Brother Wolf got a big difference of opinion about that honey tree... And Little Sister Fox, she ain't the only one that big bad wolf been trickin'

Carol: So, the trick is to catch Brother Wolf's ass in the briar patch, right?

Coffin Ed Johnson: Right.

Coffin Ed Johnson: [after Her Majesty kills Joe] Did you see anything?

Gravedigger Jones: Nah... I must be getting nearsighted in my old age.

Coffin Ed Johnson: [to Joe] Nigger, its what you're putting in black arms that's gonna burn your ass one of these days!

Coffin Ed Johnson: [Coffin Ed and Gravedigger have caught Joe with the heroin hiddin in a coffin] Up here in Harlem, all the dead are black.