Brown Girl Brownstones- Paule Marshall
“She ran, fleeing the house…racing down Chauncey Street. The brownstones leaned against the soft sky, the ones owned or leased by the West Indians looking almost new with their neat yards” (Marshall, 53).
“Fulton Street on Saturday was all beauty and desperation and sadness” (Marshall, 37)
Do the Right Thing- Spike Lee
“Who told you to buy a brownstone on my block, in my neighborhood, on my side of the street? Yo, what you wanna live in a Black neighborhood for, anyway? Man, motherfuck gentrification.”
My people, my people, what can I say; say what I can. I saw it but didn’t believe it; I didn’t believe what I saw. Are we gonna live together? Together, are we gonna live?”
Works Cited:
Lee, Spike, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, Rosie Perez, Joie S. Lee, John Savage, Samuel L. Jackson, Ernest R. Dickerson, Barry A. Brown, and Bill Lee. Do the Right Thing. Universal City, CA: Universal City Studios, 2001.
Marshall, Paule. Brown Girl, Brownstones. Old Westbury, N.Y: Feminist Press, 1981. Print.
