bell hooks’ writing told Black women and girls to trust themselves | Deborah Douglas

The feminist writer created a vocabulary that helped us to learn, grow, and forgive - and above all to understand

Having just the right words to explain what's happening keeps you from feeling, well, crazy.

When the world learned of the passing of bell hooks, the renowned feminist, public intellectual, author, and professor on Wednesday, at her home in Berea, Kentucky, it was the value and accessibility of her words that resonated with Black women, whose understanding of themselves and their own work was transformed by hooks.