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bell hooks, black feminist social critic

I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it is, to be very isolating… because I think that especially for black women, the more we rise from the bottom, the more we move and journey, the more we are the … Continue reading bell hooks, black feminist social critic →


I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it is, to be very isolating… because I think that especially for black women, the more we rise from the bottom, the more we move and journey, the more we are the targets of the most brutal and vicious attacks. —bell hooks, black feminist social critic

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