Jerry Black Quotes in A Majority of One (1961)

Essie Rubin: Take a walk around Nostrand Avenue and you'll see. That element is moving in. The place is full of them.

Jerry Black: What element Mrs. Rubin?

Essie Rubin: You know what I have reference to: colored, puerto rican...

Jerry Black: Really, I seem to remember that in this very neighborhood year ago, they didn't allow Jews

Essie Rubin: What does one got to do with the other?

Jerry Black: Everything. Mrs. Rubin, the only way to stop prejudice is to stop it in yourself

Essie Rubin: But honestly, it's not a question of prejudice, I just don't like to live with them.

Duane Larsen: I want to see my daughter.

Jerry Black: I don't think that would be a good idea.

Duane Larsen: WHY WOULDN'T THAT BE A GOOD IDEA?

Jerry Black: Because we hardly dared to look ourselves.

Stan Krolak: There is no Wizard, Jerry.

Jerry Black: You don't know what the fuck you are dealing with! The Wizard is real and I know it!

Jerry Black: I made a promise, Eric. You're old enough to remember when that meant something...

[after informing the Larsens of their daughter's murder]

Margaret Larsen: There can't be such devils out there.

Jerry Black: There *are* such devils.

[repeated line]

Jerry Black: You're out of position

[first lines]

Jerry Black: She said it. She said it. She did.

[last lines]

Jerry Black: She said it. She said it. She did.

Jerry Black: [after his partner unconventionally gets a confession out of Toby] He practically blew him.