The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations All Artisans Neither can forget the kiss

Neither can forget the kiss they shared at their senior-year dance

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one in which the palpable humanity of its characters transcends any considerations of race or sex”(Washington Post Book World)

It is the result of a faultless formula that sets HBCUs apart and helps their students thrive—a formula built on core tenets

They are born of the authors’ cultural heritage and travels—from riffs on family dishes like Strong Back Stew and memories of Uptown with Red Velvet Cake to neighborhood icons like Triboro Tres Leches and Chopped Stease (their take on the classic bodega chopped cheese) to recipes redolent of the African diaspora like Banana Leaf Fish and King Jaffe Jollof

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations All Artisans Neither can forget the kissNATIONAL 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 todays social and political moment as directly as this mornings 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. She