The Gilded Age (TV Series)

Face the Music (2022)

Michael Countryman: Carlton

Quotes 

• Carlton : Your name is fine. It does not suggest anything about your background, so we can keep it. But your race would have to remain concealed.

  Peggy Scott : How would that work?

  Carlton : We'd have you sign a document that you accept our policy, which would prevent you from divulging publicly that you are the writer of any stories we might publish.

  Peggy Scott : My own stories?

  Carlton : Once we buy them, they would be ours. So... you understand what I'm saying?

  Peggy Scott : I think so.

  Carlton : Good.

  Peggy Scott : "The Christian Advocate" is asking me to lie.

  Carlton : It's the best arrangement I can offer. You'd be paid handsomely. More than you could make at any colored publication.

  Peggy Scott : I realize that.

  Carlton : There at least two white men sitting at a bar around the corner drinking away their sorrows because I turned them down. They'd kill to be in your position.

  Peggy Scott : But they'd never be in my position.