Her words garner just as much attention on the page. Her banter with the audience during the Q&A floated easily between thoughtful answers, deep questioning and sly quips that kept us at rapt attention. In the 1990s she blessed my college campus for a week, and I was mesmerized by lectures that were deliciously brilliant yet full of humor. If you ever heard hooks speak, it would come as no surprise that she first attended college to study drama, as she recounted in a 1992 essay. I've retrieved every bell hooks book today, and the unwieldy stack comforts me as I assess the impact of her loss. I doubt I would have survived this long without her work, and the work of other Black feminist thinkers of her generation, to guide me. She's in nearly every section – race, class, film, cultural studies – and, as expected, her books take up an entire shelf in the feminism section. There are well-worn bell hooks books scattered throughout my library. Arts & Life Trailblazing feminist author, critic and activist bell hooks has died at 69
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