"Pearl Cleage breaks down for sisters all the old rules and unspoken taboos. She tells us the truths our mothers are still afraid to confront, the essential wisdom we need to stay alive. Her book mourns and rages all in one breath." BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL Author of YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE Dead-on, to the point, fearless. A third-generation black nationalist feminist, Pearl Cleage recognizes the pure power of telling the uncompromising truth--about African-American life and about the fate of the race in racist America. Whether she's writing about her--and her sisters'--defenition of good brother, or why she's so mad at Miles Davis, DEALS WITH THE DEVIL is filled with Pearl's most provactive, fascinating, and outrageous insights.