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INTERNATIONAL THE SOURCE OF SELF-REGARD - TON...

Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and
speeches  spanning four decades.   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 (The Bluest Eye  Sula  Tar Baby  Jazz  Beloved 
Paradise) and that of others.   An essential collection from an essential writer  The Source of
Self-Regard shines with the literary elegance  intellectual prowess  spiritual depth  and moral
compass that have made Toni Morrison our most cherished and enduring voice.   "Profoundly
insightful. . . . Speaks to today's social and political moment as directly as this morning's
headlines." -NPR

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