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Mrs. Browne is Kiswana Browne’s rich, somewhat conservative mother. She badgers Kiswana about going back to college after Kiswana drops out. Though Mrs. Browne and Kiswana have a combative relationship, Kiswana feels more tenderly toward her mother when she realizes that her mother wears red toenail polish to cater to Kiswana’s father’s foot fetish—Kiswana can relate, as her boyfriend Abshu also has a foot fetish.
Mrs. Browne Quotes in The Women of Brewster Place
The The Women of Brewster Place quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Browne or refer to Mrs. Browne. 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
“At least I’m here in day-to-day contact with the problems of my people. What good would I be after four or five years of a lot of white brainwashing in some phony, prestige institution, huh? I’d be like you and Daddy and those other educated blacks sitting over there in Linden Hills with a terminal case of middle-class amnesia.”
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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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Mrs. Browne Character Timeline in The Women of Brewster Place
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4. Kiswana Browne
...what she sees until she catches sight of a well-dressed woman approaching Brewster Place—her mother, Mrs. Browne . Kiswana grabs a newspaper and circles job advertisements at random, noting with annoyance how...
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When Mrs. Browne enters the building, Kiswana rushes around tidying—in part to hide that her boyfriend Abshu slept...
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Mrs. Browne says she thought Kiswana might be out job-hunting. Kiswana replies that she’s scouring the paper...
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Mrs. Browne says that Wilson’s wife is pregnant again. Kiswana snarks that she doesn’t see how the...
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Mrs. Browne asks why Kiswana won’t get a phone so her family can call. Kiswana says she...
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Mrs. Browne says that Kiswana isn’t poor. Kiswana replies that Mrs. Browne has a rich husband, but...
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Mrs. Browne denies that she’s disparaging the Movement: she believes in progress, but not revolution. People have...
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Mrs. Browne accuses Kiswana of “trying to be what [she’s] not.” Kiswana accuses Mrs. Browne of being...
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Kiswana can’t meet Mrs. Browne ’s eyes—until Mrs. Browne tells her not to back down from anyone, even her mother....
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7. The Two
...Kiswana is carrying. Kiswana explains that she’s enrolled in community college because her mother ( Mrs. Browne ) is badgering her about getting a degree—though Kiswana insists on “studying black history.” Lorraine...
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