Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the cane, slopped the hogs and picked the cotton. So they bleached it to resemble them, and now they done gone and fooled everybody. You included.


Sugar: A Novel (ed. Penguin, 2001) - ISBN: 9781101143971

Bernice McFadden Quotes

Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the...

Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the...

Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the...

Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the...