Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises

Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises is a 2004 collection of essays by Miles Marshall Lewis.

Contents

I. Memory Lanes, Gun Hill Roads

• Bronx Science
• Famous Negro Writer #77
• The Suckerpunch of My Childhood Files
• Mama's Gun
• Worldwide Underground

II. The Def of Hiphop

• Peace, Unity, Love, Having Fun
• Notes Toward a Hiphop Politick
  Appeared first in 2003 in The Nation under the title "Russell Simmons's Rap."
• Spelmo Babies and Other Bourgeois Ephemera
  Appeared first in 1997 in LA Weekly under the title "All About the Benjamins."
• Go Make of All Disciples
• Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises
• Another Great Day in Harlem
  Appeared first in 1998 in XXL under the title "Hip-Hop America."