“Soul Man” quotes

“- Gordon Bloomfeld: Objection!
- Professor Banks: To what?
- Gordon Bloomfeld: Quite frankly, to your tone of voice.”
Arye Gross - Gordon Bloomfeld
James Earl Jones - Professor Banks

“She told me they have support for people whose parents are poor, but not for those whose parents are assholes.”
C. Thomas Howell - Mark Watson

“With all due respect, sir, I just spent 18 hours locked in a jail cell, on no formal charges, getting pulverized by drunken bigots!”
C. Thomas Howell - Mark Watson

“- Professor Banks: You've learned something I can't teach them. You've learned what it feels like to be black.
- Mark Watson: No, sir.
- Professor Banks: Beg your pardon?
- Mark Watson: 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...” (continue)(continue reading)
James Earl Jones - Professor Banks
C. Thomas Howell - Mark Watson

“- Mark Watson: I got the money, Brad.
- Brad Small: Oh? How?
- Mark Watson: Where there's a will, there's a way.
- Brad Small: Yeah? And what's your way?
- Mark Watson: It's a secret way.”
C. Thomas Howell - Mark Watson
Mark Neely - Brad Small

“- 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.”
James Earl Jones - Professor Banks
C. Thomas Howell - Mark Watson

“This is the Cosby decade. America loves black people.”
C. Thomas Howell - Mark Watson

“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.”
James Earl Jones - 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.”
James Earl Jones - Professor Banks