CONTENTS

Cover

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Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgments

PRELUDE

1 She Dead!

2 I Shall Not Be Moved

3 People and Preachers

4 Am I Black Enuff for Ya?

5 Trade Alert

6 VBD’S

7 The Ladies Who Lunch

8 Boom with a View

9 Am I Right or Am I Wrong?

10 Only Human

11 Take a Look

12 Lips, Hips, and Fingertips

13 One More Picture, Please

14 Promises, Promises

15 The Walking Wounded

16 Don’t Go There

17 In My Solitude

18 A Day of Beauty, a Night of Bliss

19 Until You Come Back to Me

20 Still on the Throne

21 You Ain’t Sanging

22 Fat Meat Is Greasy

23 Shake Your Groove Thang

24 Never Keeping Secrets

25 If It Ain’t One Thing, It’s Another

26 When You Smile

27 If God Is Dead

28 Merry Christmas, Baby

EPILOGUE

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