The Source of Self-Regard

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by Toni Morrison


  “Racism and Fascism”: The Nation, May 29, 1995. Excerpt from Charter Day Speech, “The First Solution”: Howard University, Washington, DC, March 3, 1995.

  “Home”: Convocation, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, April 23, 2009.

  “Wartalk”: Oxford University, Oxford, England, June 15, 2002.

  “The War on Error”: Amnesty International Lecture, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 29, 2004.

  “A Race in Mind”: Newspaper Association of America Conference, San Francisco, California, April 27, 1994.

  “Moral Inhabitants”: Response to “In Search of a Basis for Mutual Understanding and Racial Harmony” by James Baldwin, The Nature of a Humane Society: A Symposium on the Bicentennial of the United States of America, Lutheran Church of America, Pennsylvania Southeast Synod, University of Pennsylvania, October 29–30, 1976.

  “The Price of Wealth, the Cost of Care”: Nichols-Chancellor’s Award, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, May 9, 2013.

  “The Habit of Art”: Introduction to Toby Devan Lewis, the ArtTable Award, New York, New York, April 16, 2010.

  “The Individual Artist”: National Council on the Arts, Washington, DC, February 14, 1981.

  “Arts Advocacy”: Author’s personal archive.

  “Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address”: Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, May 27, 1988.

  “The Slavebody and the Blackbody”: America’s Black Holocaust Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 25, 2000.

  “Harlem on My Mind”: Louvre Museum, Paris, France, November 15, 2006.

  “Women, Race, and Memory”: Queens College, Queens, New York, May 8, 1989.

  “Literature and Public Life”: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, November 17, 1998.

  “The Nobel Lecture in Literature”: Nobel Prize Lecture, Stockholm, Sweden, December 7, 1993.

  “Cinderella’s Stepsisters”: Barnard College Commencement Address, New York, New York, May 13, 1979.

  “The Future of Time”: The Twenty-Fifth Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, Washington, DC, March 25, 1996.

  “Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.”: Time Magazine Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Gala, New York, New York, March 3, 1998.

  “Race Matters”: Race Matters Conference keynote address, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, April 28, 1994.

  “Black Matter(s)”: Grand Street 40 (1991): 204–25. Clark Lectures, 1990. Massey Lectures, 1990.

  “Unspeakable Things Unspoken”: The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 7, 1988.

  “Academic Whispers”: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, March 10, 2004.

  “Gertrude Stein and the Difference She Makes”: Studies in American Africanism, Charter Lecture, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, November 14, 1990.

  “Hard, True, and Lasting”: Robert and Judi Prokop Newman Lecture, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, August 30, 2005.

  “James Baldwin Eulogy”: Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, New York, December 8, 1987.

  “The Site of Memory”: Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir, ed. William Zinsser (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987).

  “God’s Language”: Moody Lecture, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, May 10, 1996.

  “Grendel and His Mother”: Alexander Lecture Series, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 28, 2002.

  “The Writer Before the Page”: Generoso Pope Writers’ Conference, Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York, June 25, 1983.

  “The Trouble with Paradise”: Moffitt Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, April 23, 1998.

  “On Beloved”: Author’s personal archive.

  “Chinua Achebe”: Africa America Institute Award, New York, New York, September 22, 2000.

  “Introduction of Peter Sellars”: Belknap Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, March 14, 1996.

  “Tribute to Romare Bearden”: The World of Romare Bearden Symposium, Columbia University, New York, New York, October 16, 2004.

  “Faulkner and Women”: Faulkner and Women, ed. Doreen Fowler and Ann J. Abadie, Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi, 1986.

  “The Source of Self-Regard”: Portland Arts: Lecture Series, Portland, Oregon, March 19, 1992.

  “Rememory”: Author’s personal archive.

  “Memory, Creation, and Fiction”: Gannon Lecture, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, March 31, 1982.

  “Goodbye to All That”: Radcliffe Inaugural Lecture Series, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 3, 2001.

  “Invisible Ink”: Wilson College Signature Lecture Series, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, March 1, 2011.

  A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  TONI MORRISON, who died in 2019, wrote eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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