I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

Clinton Rosemond: Coachman

Quotes 

• Coachman : In times gone, Fort Holland was a fort and, now, no longer. The Hollands was the most old family, Miss. They brought the colored folks to the island. The colored folks and Ti-Misery.

  Betsy Connell : Ti-Misery? What's that?

  Coachman : A man, Miss. An old man who lives in the garden of Fort Holland, with arrows stuck in him and a sorrowful weeping look on his black face.

  Betsy Connell : Alive?

  Coachman : No, Miss. He's just the same as he was in the beginning. Only on the front side of an enormous boat.

  Betsy Connell : You mean a figurehead.

  Coachman : If you say, Miss. And the enormous boat brought the long ago fathers and the long ago mothers of us all, chained to the bottom of the boat.

  Betsy Connell : They brought you to a beautiful place, didn't they?

  Coachman : If you say, Miss. If you say.