bell hooks has died, aged 69.

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59672683

“I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society."

--bell hooks

Sad news. Such a clear thinker and powerful writer.

I love bell hooks.

"Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognise your power — not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.”

She also wrote some great stuff on education. It was on my education masters that I first read her. RIP.

Wow MsGoodenough, a very pertinent quote.

article on her life and work here:

www.lionsroar.com/the-best-of-bell-hooks-life-writings-quotes-and-books/

Really sad. Her work is incredibly inspiring.

I first heard about her on here a while ago. Thank you to whoever referenced her. An incredibly wise woman!

I was sorry to hear about her death. She was so inspirational.

To my shame, I've never got round to reading her. I'm very sorry it has taken her death to spur me into doing so.

RIP to a wonderful, inspirational eoman.