NAME
bell hooks
OCCUPATION
Academic, Scholar, Journalist
BIRTH DATE
September 25, 1952(age 66)
EDUCATION
University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Wisconsin, Stanford University
PLACE OF BIRTH
Hopkinsville, Kentucky
ORIGINALLY
Gloria Jean Watkins
ZODIAC SIGN
Libra
Catalysts For Change
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth,
we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
Bell hooks is an American scholar whose best known work focuses on perceptions of black women in the United States. Bell hooks is an American scholar, born in Kentucky, whose best known work focuses on perceptions of black women in the United States. Following a childhood in the segregated South hooks became a successful writer and professor, taking the name of her great-grandmother and using lowercase to focus attention on her work. Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, is an American author, feminist, and social activist. The name "bell hooks" is derived from that of her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks.