Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations Imagine that it lived under

Imagine that it lived under your roof and bounded around your bedroom at night

the choice and use of reading

Cece Bell loves music and collecting old record albums

and encouragement to engage with discomfort

a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain

Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations Imagine that it lived underNATIONAL 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.