Quotes by Clyde Brown

“A complete three hundred and sixty degree turn from the other clowns she’d dated. Like Clyde T. and his bright idea to invent chewless gum.””

“Oh, how romantic. He got arrested for me. Our romantic gestures consisted of getting felony charges on our records for each other. The Bonnie and Clyde of the Fae world.This is not what I had in mind when I think of Eli and me and handcuffs.””

“He told me about the first time he met Mom. They were little kids and she was outside selling lemonade. He thought she was cute, so he paid five whole dollars for a cup. And then she let him sell it with her, and they spit in Clyde Pill’s lemonade because Clyde always picked on Dad because Dad was smaller than him. Dad said when he saw that white loogie hanging off Mom’s lip and dropping into Clyde’s lemonade, he knew right then and there that he would love her forever.””

“Within the emerging African American literary tradition, the exploration of blues forms and themes was begun by Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Zora Neal Hurston, and other writers in the Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro movement. Blues as criticism arose during and after the Great Depression from authors such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Albert Murray, and during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s important contributions were made by Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal and others. In the present period, many African American scholars working in the disciplines and fields of music, history, folklore, drama, poetry, art, literary criticism, cultural studies, theology, anthropology, etcetera have acknowledged the blues as a hearth of African American consciousness. As stated earlier, the social sciences remain a barrier not breached.””