The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations -- Toni Mo

<b><b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER </b>- Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that speaks to today's social and political moment as directly as this morning's headlines" (NPR).</b> <p/>These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply into the fault lines of culture and freedom: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, "black matter(s)," human rights, the artist in society, the Afro-American presence in American literature. And she turns her incisive critical eye to her own work (<i>The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Beloved, </i> <i>Paradise)</i> and that of others. <p/>An essential collection from an essential writer, <i>The Source of Self-Regard</i> shines with the literary elegance, intellectual prowess, spiritual depth, and moral compass that have made Toni Morrison our most cherished and enduring voice.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Toni Morrison<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 01/14/2020<br><b>Pages:</b> 368<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.60lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.05h x 5.25w x 0.75d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780525562795<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from <i>The Bluest Eye</i> (1970) to <i>God Help the Child</i> (2015). She received