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Index
Title Page
Table of Contents
Editor’s Preface
Introduction
PART ONE - WOMEN IN SIMPLE’S LIFE
Remembrances
Wigs, Women, and Falsies
On Women Who Drink You Up
Better than a Pillow
Explain That to Me
Baltimore Womens
Less than a Damn
Never No More
Simply Heavenly
Staggering Figures
The Moon
Domesticated
Hairdos
Cousin Minnie Wins
Self-protection
Ladyhood
Lynn Clarisse
Riddles
PART TWO - RACE, RIOTS, POLICE, PRICES, AND POLITICS
Ways and Means
The Law
American Dilemma
Color of the Law
After Hours
When a Man Sees Red
Simple and the High Prices
Nickel for the Phone
Possum, Race, and Face
Everybody’s Difference
Coffee Break
Intermarriage
Joyce Objects
Liberals Need a Mascot
Serious Talk about the Atom Bomb
Adventure
Brainwashed
Wigs for Freedom
Help, Mayor, Help!
Soul Food
Little Klanny
Simple’s Psychosis
PART THREE - AFRICA AND BLACK PRIDE
The Necessaries
That Word Black
Colleges and Color
Whiter than Snow
Big Round World
Roots and Trees
Pictures
Simple Arithmetic
Africa’s Daughters
African Names
Harems and Robes
PART FOUR - PARTING LINES
Nothing but Roomers
Simple Santa
Empty Houses
God’s Other Side
Dog Days
Weight in Gold
Sympathy
Money and Mice
Population Explosion
Youthhood
Hail and Farewell
Acknowledgments
ALSO BY LANGSTON HUGHES
Sources of Stories
Copyright Page
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