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Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations the choice and use ofNATIONAL 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.