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