Feminist, intellectual, philosopher, cultural critic, and children's book author bell hooks (1952-2021
"Unlike most Black intellectuals, she writes with a deep sense of urgency about the existential and psychocultural dimensions of African American life-especially those spiritual and intimate issues of love, hurt, pain, envy and desire usually probed by artists."
Quote is taken from Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life by bell hooks and Cornel West. It is from the chapter "Intro to bell hooks."
bell hooks bio from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks
Books are available for free on the Internet Archive.
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These books will change your brain structure.
Some of them:
Feminism is for everybody : passionate politics
Reel to real : race, sex, and class at the movies
Talking back : thinking feminist, thinking black
Breaking bread : insurgent Black intellectual life
Rock my soul : Black people and self-esteem
The will to change : men, masculinity, and love
Sisters of the yam : Black women and self-recovery
When angels speak of love : poems
Salvation : Black people and love
Art on my mind : visual politics
Remembered rapture : the writer at work
Communion : the female search for love
Teaching community : a pedagogy of hope
Where we stand : class matters
Teaching critical thinking : practical wisdom
Belonging : a culture of place
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