![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps one of her most apt quotes was this one, from 1999’s Remembered Rapture: “No Black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much.’ Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’. From her debut, Ain't I a Woman, to the celebrated All About Love, hooks’s goal was always to enlighten. Like James Baldwin, Angela Davis, and Maya Angelou, she was not just one of America's leading writers but a necessary literary voice that brought the Black community’s stories to the forefront.Īfter receiving her bachelor’s at Stanford and going on to earn a doctorate at the University of California, hooks brought her unyielding and honest perspective to the world of feminist literature. ![]() Beginning with her first poetry collection in 1978, bell hooks-the renowned professor, writer, and activist who died on Decemat age 69-wrote a total of 34 provocative works interrogating feminism and race, challenging the ways in which they are interconnected. ![]()
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