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

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

Toni Morrison

368 pages first pub 2019 (view editions)

nonfiction essays feminism challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The Source of Self-Regard suits the reader who savors measured, idea-dense prose that invites them to wrestle with history, identity, and creativity, and who is willing to sit with discomfort in order to emerge with a broadened moral and artistic imagination.

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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 medit...

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challenging: 72%

inspiring: 47%

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