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  <name><![CDATA[Mendi Lewis Obadike]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[When I was white I was a man.
My hair was wavy and feathered.
I wore a cowboy hat. (It was
the Seventies. I was a stud.)

I went to bars and picked up girls.
I could have any one I saw.
They bought me drinks and I drank them
then took my favorites home to my

waterbed. I never doubted
this was me. (Even though I was
a small, black girl watching myself
over my shoulder.) I knew what

to whisper in a woman’s ear,
how to wear those bones under my skin,
and did not need to see my face
or recognize my own soft voice.

(&quot;One Black Girlhood&quot;, from Armor and Flesh)]]></about>            
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Armor and Flesh]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Mendi Lewis Obadike]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.14</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>7</ratings_count>
  <published>2004</published>  
  
</book>
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