bell hooks, wanted her name spelled entirely in lower case. She believed in level playing ground. Lucky for us her humble words were prolific. We can still access her beautiful intelligence through her many books and other publications.

• And There We Wept: poems. Los Angeles, California: Golemics. 1978. OCLC 6230231.
• Ain’t I a Woman?: Black women and feminism. Boston, Massachusetts: South End Press. 1981.
• Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. South End Press. 1984. 
• Talking Back: Thinking feminist, thinking Black. Between the Lines. 1989. Excerpted in Busby, Margaret, ed. (1992). Daughters of Africa. New York, NY: Pantheon Books.
• Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics. Boston, Massachusetts: South End Press. 1990.
• With Cornel West, Breaking bread: insurgent Black intellectual life. Boston, Massachusetts: South End Press. 1991.
• Black Looks: Race and representation. Boston, Massachusetts: South End Press. 1992.
• Sisters of the Yam: Black women and self-recovery. Boston, Massachusetts: South End Press. 1993.
• Teaching to transgress: education as the practice of freedom. New York: Routledge. 1994.
• Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations. New York: Routledge. 1994.
• Killing rage: ending racism. New York: Henry Holt and Co. 1995. 
• Art on my mind: visual politics. New York: The New Press. 1995. 
• Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies. 1996.
• Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood. New York: Henry Holt & Co. 1996.
• Wounds of Passion: A writing life. New York: Henry Holt & Co. 1997. 
• Remembered Rapture: the writer at work. Henry Holt and Co. 1999. 
• hooks, bell (2000). Justice: childhood love lessons.
• All About Love: New Visions. New York: William Morrow. 2000.
• Feminism is for everybody: passionate politics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press. 2000. 
• Where we stand: class matters (PDF). Routledge. 2000.
• Salvation: Black people and love. New York: Perennial. 2001.
• Communion: the female search for love. New York, NY: Perennial. 2002. 
• Teaching community: a pedagogy of hope. New York: Routledge. 2003.
• Rock my soul: Black people and self-esteem. New York, NY: Atria Books. 2003. 
• The will to change: men, masculinity, and love. New York: Atria Books. 2004. 
• Space. 2004.
• We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity. New York, NY: Routledge. 2004. 
• Soul Sister: Women, Friendship, and Fulfillment. Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press. 2005. 
• Witness. 2006.
• With Amalia Mesa-Bains, Homegrown: engaged cultural criticism. Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press. 2006. 
• Belonging: a culture of place. New York, NY: Routledge. 2009.
• Teaching Critical Thinking: practical wisdom. New York, NY: Routledge. 2010. 
• Appalachian Elegy: poetry and place. Kentucky Voices Series. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2012. 
• Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice. New York, NY: Routledge. 2013.
• With Stuart Hall, Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue, Foreword by Paul Gilroy. New York, NY: