Awards and Nominations
- Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics: The American Book Awards/ Before Columbus Foundation Award (1991)
- Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism: "One of the twenty most influential women’s books in the last 20 years" by Publishers Weekly (1992)
- Bell Hooks: The Writer’s Award from the Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Fund (1994)
- Happy to Be Nappy: NAACP Image Award nominee (2001)
- Homemade Love: The Bank Street College Children's Book of the Year (2002)
- Salvation: Black People and Love: Hurston Wright Legacy Award nominee (2002)
- Bell Hooks: Utne Reader's "100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life"
- Bell Hooks: The Atlantic Monthly's "One of our nation’s leading public intellectuals"
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