Quantum Leap (TV Series)

Pool Hall Blues - September 4, 1954 (1990)

Robert Gossett: Charles Griffin

Quotes 

• Charles Griffin : I'd like to help you, but...

  Violet Walters : [finishes]  But you won't.

  Charles Griffin : [leaning forward, speaks quietly]  I am the first negro loan officer in this bank. Do you know what I had to go through to get here? How many extra hours and weekends I had to put in? How many times I had to swallow my pride and say, "Well done," to men promoted into positions I earned? Know how many nigger jokes I had to pretend not to hear?

  Charles Griffin : [leans back, speaks loudly]  I'm sorry, Miss Walters, but I don't see how I can recommend your request to our loan committee.

  Violet Walters : Come on, poppy, we're wasting our breath on this *white* man!

  [she storms out, but Sam gets up more slowly and lingers a moment] 

  Dr. Sam Beckett : You made it. Maybe it took you twice as long, but you've made it. And being the first bears some responsibility to those who are trying to make it behind you.