Tales of Manhattan (1942)

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson: Reverend Lazarus

Quotes 

• Reverend Lazarus : That sho is a powerful miracle you got down there. I heard of a heap of prayin' in my day, but, I ain't neva seen the Lawd pass no miracle before.

  Little Nicodemus (Robeson sequence) : That's blasphemy, Reverend!

  Reverend Lazarus : Shut yo mouth, Nicodemus! Who's da preacher around here? Or, is you? I ain't sayin' the Law didn't pass this here miracle.

• Reverend Lazarus : You certain this come from up there and not from down there? It smell more like the devil than the Lawd.

  Esther : I reckon Moses didn't stop to figure how the devil sent the manna to the children of Israel out in the wilderness. He know'd de Lawd sent it, cause he believed in de Lawd!

  Reverend Lazarus : That's that dis is. Manna from heaven. Lawd done gone an' done it again. Praise the Lawd! Hallelujah!

• Reverend Lazarus : This is the most upsettin'est miracle I evah heard of!

• Esther : Wot you prayin' for an' believes in - you get! Matthew 21:22.

  Reverend Lazarus : Blessed and be poor, for that's all they git.

  Little Nicodemus (Robeson sequence) : Hey, Reverend, don't it jes say, blessed and be poor, in spirit?

  Reverend Lazarus : It all comes to the same thing! When you'se poor, you'se poor all over.