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C.C. Baker is a violent, insecure young man who lives in Brewster Place. He is always hanging around with his friends and smoking marijuana near the apartment complex. Because he only knows how to relate to women sexually, he finds his neighbor Lorraine’s romantic disinterest in men threatening. One day, when he yells homophobic slurs at Lorraine, their neighbor Kiswana chastises and verbally humiliates him, leading him to vow revenge against Lorraine. He and his friends later ambush Lorraine in a dark alley on the north edge of Brewster Place and brutally rape her, an event that leads to Lorraine’s disoriented, traumatized murder of Ben.
C.C. Baker Quotes in The Women of Brewster Place
The The Women of Brewster Place quotes below are all either spoken by C.C. Baker or refer to C.C. Baker. 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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7. The Two Quotes
So Lorraine found herself, on her knees, surrounded by the most dangerous species in existence—human males with an erection to validate in a world that was only six feet wide.
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8. The Block Party Quotes
“Oh, I don’t know, one of those crazy things that get all mixed up in your head. Something about that wall and Ben. And there was a woman who was supposed to be me, I guess. She didn’t look exactly like me, but inside I felt it was me. You know how silly dreams are.”
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“Woman, you still in bed? Don’t you know what day it is? We’re gonna have a party.”
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C.C. Baker Character Timeline in The Women of Brewster Place
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6. Cora Lee
...and praises the baby. She also complains that the police won’t investigate her reports of C.C. Baker and his friends smoking “dope” in the alley.
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...the “bad element” that’s moved in. When Mattie says she’s already called the police on C.C. Baker, Sophie clarifies that she means the two in 312. Etta—eyeing Sophie—says they’re two girls...
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While Kiswana and Lorraine chat, C.C. Baker and his friends walk up. They recognize Kiswana because her boyfriend Abshu runs the...
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When Lorraine smiles at Kiswana’s victory, C.C. decides to reestablish his dominance by threatening to hit her. Kiswana gets between Lorraine and...
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Theresa has watched the confrontation from the window in case Kiswana needed help with C.C. She scorns Lorraine for letting Kiswana protect her, but she hopes C.C. has taught Lorraine...
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...from her apartment—and visit Ben. In the dark alley, Lorraine hears thumps behind her. Then C.C. grabs her, calling her a homophobic slur. She realizes that the thumps were C.C. and...
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After the rapes, C.C. and his friends laugh and flee. Lorraine, bloody, lies in the alley until the sun...
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