Black Lightning (TV Series)

LaWanda: The Book of Burial (2018)

Clifton Powell: Reverend Jeremiah Holt

Quotes 

• Reverend Jeremiah Holt : Sister Lawanda was one of us. A friend, a mother, and she most certainly was a woman of God. Sister Lawanda fought the good fight, and now she's gone. And all sister Lawanda did was try to save her child.

• Reverend Jeremiah Holt : And the 100 tried to send a message by killing her! They wanted us to stay down, to stay scared, to have the little bit of life they gave us! Well, I'm standin' here tonight to tell ya that we're gonna send the 100 back a message by following sister Lawanda's example! So, I need 100 God-fearing people to march with me! I said, I need 100 God-fearing people to march with me! March with me, so that we can take back our community! So that our kids can live free of the drugs and the violence and all the damage that goes from living in a place that nobody gives a damn about! Stand up! March with me! Stand up if you're gonna march with me! Stand up if you're gonna march with me!

• Inspector Henderson : [as Rev. Holt comes down from the pulpit to go to his office]  Look, Reverend, I don't support paying the 100 for anything, but I get that's where we are right now, and I know the police have to do a lot...

  Reverend Jeremiah Holt : Amen, amen, amen, amen, brother. You see, we wouldn't have to pay for protection if half the police department didn't have their hands in the 100's pockets.

  Inspector Henderson : Well, I'm not in the 100's pockets, and good work is being done. Now, we may not get there in the moment, but we will get there in the end.

  Reverend Jeremiah Holt : See, we're gonna put our trust in the power of the Almighty, because we damn sure can't put our trust in you. Got that?

  Jefferson Pierce : Come on, that's not true, Jeremiah. You know it.

  [in Rev. Holt's office] 

  Reverend Jeremiah Holt : What, those crooked cops send you down here like the overseer? Put the slaves in check? Huh?

  Inspector Henderson : While you're up in the pulpit with a $25,000 watch on, wiping your forehead with a silk handkerchief, I'm scraping young Black men's bodies off the concrete. The street IS my pulpit.

  Jefferson Pierce : [holds them apart]  Billy, okay...

  Inspector Henderson : I wear work shoes. What kind of shoes you wear... Reverend?