Smithers: [Jones prepares to escape into the jungle] Give my regards to any ghosts yer 'appen to meet!
Brutus Jones: [pause] If dat ghost have money, I tells him never to haunt you lessen he wants to lose it!

- Paul Robeson in The Emperor Jones (1933)

Brutus Jones: [With bravado] It takes a silver bullet to kill Brutus Jones.

- Paul Robeson in The Emperor Jones (1933)

Brutus Jones: Ain't talking big what makes a man big, s'long as he makes folks believe it?

- Paul Robeson in The Emperor Jones (1933)

Brutus Jones: They's some things I don't got to be told. I can see 'em in folks' eyes.

- Paul Robeson in The Emperor Jones (1933)