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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 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.
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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.
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Abshu Character Timeline in The Women of Brewster Place
The timeline below shows where the character Abshu appears in The Women of Brewster Place. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
4. Kiswana Browne
...Mrs. Browne enters the building, Kiswana rushes around tidying—in part to hide that her boyfriend Abshu slept over. The memory of Abshu’s lips on her feet distracts her: he has a...
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6. Cora Lee
...flyers—but she’s busy. Looking sadly around the apartment, Kiswana tells Cora Lee that her boyfriend Abshu is producing A Midsummer Night’s Dream with a Black cast in the park the next...
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7. The Two
...Lorraine chat, C.C. Baker and his friends walk up. They recognize Kiswana because her boyfriend Abshu runs the community center and Lorraine because their parents have gossiped about her. Lesbianism threatens...
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...threatening to hit her. Kiswana gets between Lorraine and C.C., whose friends remind him that Abshu is large and willing to fight. C.C. mimes reluctance as his friends pull him away...
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