. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.
Source: In The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya, by Terri L. Jewell, 1993.
-- bell hooks, (Sep 25 1952-____), US educator, feminist theorist, poet; Born Gloria Watkins, she assumed her great-grandmother's name; became professor of English and Women's Studies at Oberlin.