With little fanfare, bell hooks has influenced your favorite industry leaders worldwide and has been named one of TIME’s 100 Women of the Year. Like many Black women scholars before her, Bell Hooks gave so much of herself: to theories, writers aspiring to be writers, and the future she sought to create. She understood the sense of urgency in her work and wasted no opportunity to push any and every conversation forward. She has published between thirty and forty written works in her lifetime; hooks wrote feverishly while never allowing the quality of her work to falter.