This declaration guides hooks’ understanding towards love as a rich and generative force. Perched on her kitchen wall, the words “ The search for love continues even in the face of great odds” stand in bright colours. Hooks’ novel begins with her reflections on the photographs of the graffiti splashed across the construction walls hooks passed on her way to work. hooks devotes each chapter to an aspect of love, and every one nudges the reader towards the open arms of love’s embrace. Her book, All About Love: New Visions, works in tandem with two of hooks’ later books, Salvation: Black People and Love (2001) and Communion: The Female Search For Love (2002), in her pursuit of love’s truth. Image depicting three of hooks’ books on love. bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins, was a formative writer and theorist in Black feminism with over thirty books and numerous essays published in her lifetime. In a society amassed with structural and interpersonal violence, bell hooks comforts a public plagued by lovelessness. For bell hooks, love is a verb, a practice. For most, love is an unknowable force - something beyond measure or rationale. What is love? With endless songs, novels, letters, poems written about love over millennia, it seems strange that that question has yet to find a widely-accepted answer.
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