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If integrity was one pillar by which hooks faithfully abided, love was the other.

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Any Black feminist in film criticism will elevate The Oppositional Gaze as recommended reading.

hookss fastidious adherence to candor above all would not come without repudiations.

Critics assumed hookss perception of Black men came from a position of disdain rather than care.

It is not an understatement to say that hooks changed the world.

We learned to acknowledge grief as part of healing, as part of the continuum of love.

Now to process her loss, we have an endless array of hookss own words to turn back to.

I imagine this farewell scene and it solaces me; Kentucky hills were where my life began.