the source of self regard selected essays speeches and meditations

The black mask permitted whites to say illegal, unorthodox, seditious, and sexually illicit things in public. 'The point to remember is that minstrelsy had virtually nothing to do with the way black people really were it was a purely white construction. In a 1994 speech, 'A Race in Mind,' she discusses, among other things, blackface. Her great subject has always been America's original sin of racism, and it surfaces in almost all of these pieces. The subjects that Morrison has focused her mighty intellect upon for more than half a century continue to be essential issues. One striking thing about these essays is how utterly timely many of them remain. Therefore the historical suppression of writers is the earliest harbinger of the steady peeling away of additional rights and liberties that will follow.' Unpersecuted, unjailed, unharassed writers are trouble for the ignorant bully, the sly racist, and the predators feeding off the world's resources. It is trouble for the warmonger, the torturer, the corporate thief, the political hack, the corrupt justice system, and for a comatose public. That's inevitable, she writes, 'because truth is trouble. The introduction is titled 'Peril,' and in it Morrison lets us know why she feels this book is necessary: Writing is powerful and therefore, in times like ours, threatened. The pieces in this collection range over almost four decades, from 1976 to 2013, and include commencement addresses, eulogies, essays on other artists and her own work, and her Nobel lecture on the power of language. 12, Morrison published The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations. 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.On Feb. And she turns her incisive critical eye to her own work (The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Beloved, Paradise) and that of others. 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. 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.

Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades.

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The source of self regard selected essays speeches and meditations