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==Influences== Included among hooks' influences is the American abolitionist and feminist [[Sojourner Truth]]. Truth's "[[Ain't I a Woman?]]" inspired hooks' first major [[Ain't I a Woman? (book)|book]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lee |first=Min Jin |date=February 28, 2019 |title=In Praise of Bell Hooks |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/books/bell-hooks-min-jin-lee-aint-i-a-woman.html |access-date=March 15, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Also, the Brazilian educator [[Paulo Freire]] is mentioned in hooks' book ''Teaching to Transgress''. His perspectives on education are present in the first chapter, "engaged pedagogy".<ref>{{Cite book |last=hooks |first=bell |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30668295 |title=Teaching to transgress : education as the practice of freedom |date=1994 |isbn=0-415-90807-8 |location=New York |oclc=30668295}}</ref> Other influences include Peruvian theologian [[Gustavo Gutiérrez]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sarkar |first=Somnath |date=July 11, 2021 |title=Aint I a Woman? {{!}} Feminist Theory of Bell Hooks |url=https://www.eng-literature.com/2021/07/feminist-theory-of-bell-hooks.html |access-date=March 15, 2023 |website=All About English Literature |language=en-US}}</ref> psychologist [[Erich Fromm]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Richards |first=Aleta |date=September 22, 2000 |title=All About Love. (Book reviews: love everybody right now) |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&issn=&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA83698173&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs |journal=Civil Rights Journal |language=en |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=58–61}}</ref> playwright [[Lorraine Hansberry]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Trescott |first=Jacqueline |date=February 9, 1999 |title=A WOMAN OF HER WORDS |language=en-US |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/02/09/a-woman-of-her-words/fd1f95a4-b6d7-43ef-b1f7-95c98d30637f/ |access-date=March 15, 2023 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Buddhist monk [[Thích Nhất Hạnh]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bell Hooks tells the story of the first time she met Thich Nhat Hanh - Lions Roar |date=December 21, 2017 |url=https://www.lionsroar.com/bell-hooks-on-meeting-thich-nhat-hanh/ |access-date=March 15, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> and African American writer [[James Baldwin]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=hooks |first=bell |title=Why James Baldwin Is Important: Books, Quotes, Essays, Poems, Movie, Biography * Bell Hooks Books |url=https://bellhooksbooks.com/why-james-baldwin-is-important-books-quotes-essays-poems-movie-biography/ |access-date=March 15, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref>
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