Check out these ten books by the legendary author. She was also the founder of the bell hooks Institute, which “celebrates, honors, and documents the life and work” of its namesake. No woman has ever written enough.”Ī native of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, hooks taught at Berea College for over 15 years. Perhaps one of her most apt quotes was this one, from 1999’s Remembered Rapture: “No Black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much.’ Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’. From her debut, Ain't I a Woman, to the celebrated All About Love, hooks’s goal was always to enlighten. Like James Baldwin, Angela Davis, and Maya Angelou, she was not just one of America's leading writers but a necessary literary voice that brought the Black community’s stories to the forefront.Īfter receiving her bachelor’s at Stanford and going on to earn a doctorate at the University of California, hooks brought her unyielding and honest perspective to the world of feminist literature. The word love is most often defined as a noun, yet.we would all love to better if we used it as a verb, writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the '100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.' All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.Beginning with her first poetry collection in 1978, bell hooks-the renowned professor, writer, and activist who died on Decemat age 69-wrote a total of 34 provocative works interrogating feminism and race, challenging the ways in which they are interconnected. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question 'What is love?' her answers strike at both the mind and heart. People are divided, she declares, by society's failure to provide a model for learning to love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness-not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. 'The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,' writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' 'Love Song to the Nation' trilogy.

Bell hooks book on love