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New York Times bestselling author, acclaimed visionary and cultural critic bell hooks continues her exploration of the meaning of love in contemporary American society, offering groundbreaking, critical insight about Black people and love. Written from both historical and cultural perspectives, Salvation takes an incisive look at the transformative power of love in the lives of African Americans. Whether talking about the legacy of slavery, relationships and marriage in Black life, the prose show more and poetry of Martin Luther King, Jr., James Baldwin, and Maya Angelou, the liberation movements of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, or hip hop and gangsta rap culture, hooks lets us know what love's got to do with it. Combining the passionate politics of W.E.B. DuBois with fresh, contemporary insights, hooks brilliantly offers new visions that will heal our nation's wounds from a culture of lovelessness. Her writings on love and its impact on race, class, family, history, and popular culture will help us heal and create beloved American communities. show lessTags
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A cultural critic, an intellectual, and a feminist writer, bell hooks best known for classic books including Ain't I a Woman, Bone Black, All About Love, Rock My Soul, Belonging, We Real Cool, Where We Stand, Teaching to Transgress, Teaching Community, Outlaw Culture, and Reel to Real, hooks is Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian show more Studies at Berea College, and resides in her home state of Kentucky. show less
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- Salvation is being on the right road, not having reached a destination. --- Martin Luther King Jr.
One tries to recover, to be once more in good shape, to become whole again. ... And I think that is the beginning of awakening. People speak about sudden enlightenment. It is not something very difficult to understand; each o... (show all)f us has undergone that kind of experience in our own life. The distance separating forgetfulness, ignorance, and enlightenment---that distance is short; it is so short it is no distance at all. One may be ignorant now, but he can be enlightened in the next second. The recovering of oneself can be realized in just one portion of one second. And to be aware of who we are, what we are, what we are doing, what we are thinking, seems to be a very easy thing to do---and yet it is the most important thing; to remember---the starting point of the salvation of oneself. --- Thich Nhat Hanh, *The Raft Is Not the Shore*
Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word *love* here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace---not in the infantile Amer... (show all)ican sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth. --- James Baldwin, *The Fire Next Time* (after Introduction, but before the rest of the book) - First words
- Love and death were the great mysteries of my childhood. (Introduction)
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Love is our hope and our salvation.
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- 306.7 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Sexual relations
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- E185.86 .H739 — History of the United States United States Elements in the population Afro-Americans Status and development since emancipation
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