She adopted her pen name from her great grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks.
I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.” -bell hooks Who is bell hooks?īell hooks was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky as Gloria Jean Watkins in 1952. Love for her family, for herself love for her culture, for her color, love for all of the people who don’t deserve her writing, but read anyway so we can see a glimpse of what could be. She writes with passion, ferocity, pain at the injustices, but mostly love. Reading hooks’s writing has become essential in my anti-racist learning. As an English major, her work on race, gender, and class was critical in my education-especially as we discussed the difficult topics of Civil War–era (and beyond) Black writers. Of course, it took me a while to actually read one of bell hooks’s books for class.
I was introduced to the work of bell hooks like most of us, in college and like some of us, I instantly fell in love with her writing.
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