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Mrs. Browne
Abshu is Kiswana Browne’s kindly boyfriend who has a foot fetish. A large, strong man, he works as the director of the community center near Brewster Place. At one point, he organizes an all-Black production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the park near Brewster Place, which Cora Lee and her children attend and find unexpectedly moving.
Abshu Quotes in The Women of Brewster Place
The The Women of Brewster Place quotes below are all either spoken by Abshu or refer to Abshu. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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4. Kiswana Browne
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I’ll be damned, the young woman thought, feeling her whole face tingle. Daddy’s into feet! And she looked at the blushing woman on her couch and suddenly realized that her mother had trod through the same universe that she herself was now traveling.
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6. Cora Lee
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“Mama,” Sammy pulled on her arm, “Shakespeare’s black?”
“Not yet,” she said softly, remembering she had beaten him for writing the rhymes on her bathroom walls.
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Abshu Quotes in The Women of Brewster Place
The The Women of Brewster Place quotes below are all either spoken by Abshu or refer to Abshu. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
4. Kiswana Browne
Quotes
I’ll be damned, the young woman thought, feeling her whole face tingle. Daddy’s into feet! And she looked at the blushing woman on her couch and suddenly realized that her mother had trod through the same universe that she herself was now traveling.
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
6. Cora Lee
Quotes
“Mama,” Sammy pulled on her arm, “Shakespeare’s black?”
“Not yet,” she said softly, remembering she had beaten him for writing the rhymes on her bathroom walls.
