The Source of Self-Regard - By Toni Morrison

The Source of Self-RegardSelected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations By Toni Morrison Publisher: Knopf | Vintage (2020)  ISBN-13: 9780525562795 (Paperback) ISBN-13: 9780525521037 (Hardcover) Pages: 368 (Paperback and Hardcover editions)  Genre(s): History, Society & Culture, Biography & Memoir, Black/African-American Interest About the Book NATIONAL BESTSELLER • 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). Morrison is more than the standard bearer of American literature. She is our greatest singer. And this book is perhaps her most important song.” —The New York Times  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