The Sixties and Seventies were moments of great political turmoil and student movements across the world. Her life journeys through the halls of so many elite academic institutions led her back eventually to her home in Berera in Kentucky where she continued to read, write, educate and spread her words and her wisdom. Like other black feminist thinkers, hooks was also deeply connected to her community.
One of hooks’s strengths were her methods of communication - simple, unthreatening, funny, personal and filled with stories that, in a wonderful sleight of hand, connected to the larger questions that trouble all of us: What did it mean to love? How could one transcend anger? Why was there such strong resistance to patriarchy? What did it mean to talk of family values? What should education be? What was it like to be a black man, a black boy, in America and why were we not talking about men, to men? Thinkers and activists like bell hooks are rare, and for that, they are also precious.
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