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The Source of Self-Regard
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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).
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.
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.
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“There’s no one like Toni Morrison and I don’t know what else to say! I have so much reflecting to do on the topics of this collection. Some of my favorite chapters, which were the most thought provoking *to me*: Moral Inhabitants; Racism and Fascism; Women, Race, and Memory; and Invisible Ink. I highly recommend this book.”han
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“An always profound and relevant voice, Toni Morrison's The Source of Self-Regard is a collection of essays, speeches, and meditations, with some elements of memoir and literary criticism thrown in. The timing of which I read this collection was not lost on me, so I took my time to truly ingest what I was reading. One of my favorite quotes from the collection has to be:
“Our past is bleak. Our future dim. But I am not reasonable. A reasonable man adjusts to his environment. And unreasonable man does not. All progress, therefore, depends on the unreasonable man. I prefer not to adjust to my environment. I refuse the prison of “I” and choose the open spaces of “we”.”
While there were times when I found the writing to linger too long on some ideas, who am I to critique one of the greatest American writers to ever bless us with her art?
Toni, your brilliance is missed. Thank you for leaving us a blueprint on how to continue moving forward.”
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“an intimate collection that connects you to an absolute literary legend. she's generous in the way she reveals her perspectives and process - what a gift.”
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