Ode to bell hooks

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ZORA

2 min readDec 16, 2021

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Images from bell hooks INSTITUTE, Berea College, bellhooksinstitute.com

sista bell hooks,

to you,

we owe

an enormous debt

that can never really

be repaid

in full.

You fed our minds,

gave us concepts

like Black Feminism

Irma McClaurin

Written by Irma McClaurin

Writer for

ZORA

Award-winning author/ anthropologist/consultant & past prez of Shaw U. Forthcoming: JUSTSPEAK: Race, Culture & Politics in America: http://irmamcclaurin.com.

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