The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful affirmation of just how profoundly she can. They all have catchy hooks and foot-tapping beats, and dance lovers from all over. bell hooks was a writer and critic who taught most recently at Berea. 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 the individuals and for a nation. The late bell hooks’ 2020 book All About Love: New Visions is a story about learning to love, writes Shambhawi Tripathi, focusing on the transformative power of loving as an antidote to sexism and consumerism, and a path to care, trust, healing and honest communication. In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. At the moment of my birth, I was looked upon with loving. Celebrated author and feminist bell hooks dies, aged 69. But it was loves ahsence that let me know how much love mattered. The choice to love is the choice to connect - to find ourselves in the other. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. When we choose to love we choose to move against fear - against alienation and separation. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. “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. They talked about how most people misunderstand love and the many forms it can take and how transformative and powerful real love can be in all spheres of life.
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