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

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By Toni Morrison

Published Oct. 17, 2018

 Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison brings together a collection of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art in her new book The Source of Self Regard (Knopf). Including a prayer for the victims of 9/11, a meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., and a eulogy for James Baldwin, the collection spans four decades of writing on contested social issues and enduring matters of culture.

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