Love Song to the Nation Volume 1
“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, 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. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love.
As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. 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. 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.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Grace: Touched by Love
One
Clarity: Give Love Words
Two
Justice: Childhood Love Lessons
Three
Honesty: Be True to Love
Four
Commitment: Let Love Be Love in Me
Five
Spirituality: Divine Love
Six
Values: Living by a Love Ethnic
Seven
Greed: Simply Love
Eight
Community: Loving Communion
Nine
Mutuality: The Heart of Love
Ten
Romance: Sweet Love
Eleven
Loss: Loving into Life and Death
Twelve
Healing: Redemptive Love
Thirteen
Destiny: When Angels Speak of Love
Each offering from bell hooks is a major event, as she has so much to give us.-- Maya Angelou
She provides a refreshing spiritual treatise that steps outside the confines of the intellect and into the wilds of the heart.-- Seattle Weekly
Like love, this book is worth the commitment.-- Toronto Sun
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