![]() A wiser version of all the self-help books that already lived on my shelves. It was only after a friend personally testified to the impact of hooks, All About Love that I finally went online and paid full price.įrom the title, I expected introspective work on romantic love and self-love. ![]() ![]() I now believe that is a testament to her creating work that readers like to hold onto. As someone who was always digging through the crates at second-hand bookshops, I was surprised I never stumbled across her in the bins. Year after year I vowed I would add some of her work to my cart but somehow reached the ripe old age of twenty-seven and still hadn’t read any. As I got older my collection of what I considered serious Black woman literature was growing but bell hooks remained in my mental TBR pile. I spent a decent amount of time being embarrassed that I hadn’t read bell hooks. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm’s way.” ![]() “All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks ![]()
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