Raymond St. Jacques credited as playing...
Coffin Ed Johnson
- Coffin Ed: White guys?
- Gravedigger Jones: White guys? They had on masks. How did you know they were white?
- Lo Boy: [crying] Oh Lordy, help me!
- Coffin Ed: I'm asking you. How do you know they was white?
- Lo Boy: They run white, dammit.
- Coffin Ed: What the hell do the attorney general, the state department, or even the President of the United States know about one god-damn thing that's going on up here in Harlem?
- Gravedigger Jones: Hey, Ed!
- Coffin Ed: What is it?
- Gravedigger Jones: Look at this. Cotton, from inside the meat truck.
- Coffin Ed: One thing for sure, it ain't drugstore cotton.
- Anderson: What is it?
- Coffin Ed: It's raw, unprocessed cotton. Like from a bale.
- Gravedigger Jones: Ohhh, it's a long time since I've seen cotton like that.
- Coffin Ed: Digger, you ain't never seen no raw cotton before. You were born and raised right here in New York, just like me.
- [Drunken man stumbles up during riot at police station]
- Man: Well, ain't this the "Goin' Back to Africa Rally"?
- Coffin Ed: No, baby, it is the "Goin' Home Rally".
- [people outside police station demanding O'Malley return their money]
- Coffin Ed: Digger and I will do our damnedest to get your money back. We promise.
- Rioter: Promises! Hell with promises!
- Gravedigger Jones: Anybody out there ever hear of Coffin Ed or the Gravedigger make a promise we didn't keep?
- [Crowd gets quiet]
- Coffin Ed: Now, we may have broken some heads, but we never broke no promises.