Soul Man (1986)

James Earl Jones: Professor Banks

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• Professor Banks : You've learned something I can't teach them. You've learned what it feels like to be black.

  Mark : No sir.

  Professor Banks : Beg your pardon?

  Mark : I don't really know what it feels like sir. If I didn't like it, I could always get out. It's not the same sir.

  Professor Banks : You've learned a great deal more than I thought.

• Professor Banks : Mr. Watson, I am not a humorless man, but if you insist on taking up my class time making jokes, please see to it that they are funny.

• Professor Banks : I understand you are allowed one phone call from jail?

  Mark Watson : Yes.

  Professor Banks : Next time you get arrested, use it to call me. I'll bring you your books. You can study in jail.

• Professor Banks : Some of you may have had easy lives up until now. Some of you may not. Life this semester won't be *easy* for any of you. Your grades in your first year of law school can determine your entire future in the law.

• Professor Banks : If you've had some sort of accident, Mr Watson, perhaps you should have taken the entire day off.

  Mark : Oh. I'm fine. I just got in sort of a fight. I mean, it wasn't my fault! You see they threw me in this cell with these real ass - - some extremely unsportsman-like fellows.

• Gordon Bloomfeld : Objection!

  Professor Banks : To what?

  Gordon Bloomfeld : Quite frankly, to your tone of voice.