The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
By: Toni Morrison
4.30
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collectio…
Want to Read $ 12.99"A perfect thing is not everything."-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
"A perfect thing is not everything."-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
"To all these people, the attraction was of the “clean slate"-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
"To all these people, the attraction was of the “clean slate"-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
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1. Just Above My Head
By: James Baldwin
4.43
Format: 584 pages, Paperback
James Baldwin’s final novel is “the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers” ( The N… read more
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"The first love disappears, but never goes. That ache becomes reconciliation."-James Baldwin, Just Above My Head
"Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen."-James Baldwin, Just Above My Head
"Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud."-James Baldwin, Just Above My Head
"For, without love, pleasure withers quickly, becomes a foul taste on the palate, and pleasure’s inventions are soon exhausted. There must be a soul within the body you are holding, a soul which you a…"-James Baldwin, Just Above My Head
2. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
By: James Baldwin
4.30
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attac… read more
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"I remembered my mother’s insistence that I always wear clean underwear because I might get knocked down by a car on the way to or from school and I and the family would be disgraced even beyond the g…"-James Baldwin, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
3. Killing Rage: Ending Racism
By: bell hooks
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
One of our country's premier cultural and social critics, bell hooks has always maintained that era… read more
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"While it has become “cool"-bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism
"All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity."-bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism
"Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be “just humans"-bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism
"Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world."-bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism
4. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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5. The Salt Eaters
By: Toni Cade Bambara
3.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Velma Henry has always been a fighter, but she has fallen on hard times. Exhausted by her political… read more
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- feminism
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6. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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- race
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7. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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8. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
By: Morgan Parker
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonceuses political and pop-cultural references as a framewo… read more
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9. Haruko/Love Poems
By: Adrienne Rich , June Jordan , Sara Miles
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
For Haruko Little moves on sight blinded by histories as trivial or expansive as the rain seducing … read more
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10. Black Women Writers at Work
By: None
3.62
Format: None pages,
The tone and spirit of this splendid volume of conversations with fourteen Black women writers is e… read more
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11. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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- african american
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
12. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
By: Roxane Gay
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more
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13. The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
By: Audre Lorde
4.62
Format: 367 pages, Paperback
A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indel… read more
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"Perhaps for some of you here today, I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am woman, because I am Black, because I am lesbian, because I am myself - a Black woman warrior poet doing my work - …"-Audre Lorde, The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
14. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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15. Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human
By: Cole Arthur Riley
4.75
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the… read more
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16. Bowie w Warszawie
By: Dorota Masłowska
3.30
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Nowa książka Doroty Masłowskiej. Opowieść o wielkim, a przede wszystkim małym świecie i rozpaczliwy… read more
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17. A Fortune for Your Disaster
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.47
Format: None pages, None
In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and mu… read more
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18. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
By: Robyn Maynard
4.57
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Delving behind Canada's veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the v… read more
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"In the abolitionist journal Voice of the Fugitive, Shadd Cary neatly summed up the Canadian contradiction, calling the white Canadian an “anti-slavery Negro hater"-Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
"slavery never took the form of the large-scale plantations found in the American South, the Caribbean or South America. Plantations, though their establishment was desired by some colonists, were fou…"-Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
19. The Toni Morrison Book Club
By: Juda Bennett
4.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this startling group memoir, four friends—black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and Ameri… read more
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20. Like Love: Essays and Conversations
By: Maggie Nelson
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more
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21. The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
By: Toni Morrison
4.30
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collectio… read more
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"A perfect thing is not everything."-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
"To all these people, the attraction was of the “clean slate"-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
"There is no way to answer the systemic distortions of the press."-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
"Home is memory and companions and/or friends who share the memory."-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
