People don’t pray with each other anymore, she testified. So in the same spirit, she called out to me every time I left her presence, “Don’t forget to love!” I share what bell taught me about love. During “our time” together, two Kentucky women, her, Black from the hills of Kentucky and me, white from central Kentucky, bell taught me directly All About Love. “Yes, please share about our time,” she whispered to me once. In my 30s, it was bell’s work that helped me understand the violent nature of white feminism, how “there could be no real sisterhood between white women and women of color if white women were not able to divest of white supremacy.” I took my last trip to see her on my 40th birthday, six weeks before she died. She published her first book, “Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism” in 1981, the year I was born. How to continue her legacy of love in the face of the “imperialist capitalist white supremacist patriarchy” is a question I’m honored to bear.īell taught us much about how to love through her prolific gift of 40-plus books and hundreds of public lectures, conversations and articles. Processing the late-in-life friendship I had with bell, born Gloria Jean Watkins in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, will be a lifelong endeavor. More: Feminist author and poet bell hooks, known for 'Aint I A Woman' and 'All About Love', dies at 69
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