All about Love: Love Song to the Nation Book 1

Discuss how hooks draws connections between love and loss. What are the different ways one can experience loss? How does loss teach a person about love?

Explain hooks’s concept of “love ethic.” What is a love ethic, and why does hooks advocate for living by a love ethic?

hooks describes the importance of healing in love practice. What does healing (from trauma, from the past, from lovelessness) entail, and why is it necessary in the practice of love?

According to hooks, love and spirituality are inherently connected. What does hooks mean when she speaks of spirituality, and how is it relevant to the practice of love?

What is the significance of community in love practice? What makes a community, and why does hooks believe it is important that everyone strive to be a part of one? In what ways is community essential to one’s ability to love?

Discuss hooks’s analysis of romantic love. What constitutes romantic love, and what are the positive and negative aspects of this kind of love?

What is the connection between love and capitalism, according to hooks? What does living in a capitalist society do (or not do) for a community’s collective love practice?

According to hooks, why is it important that every individual practice self-love? In what ways does the practice of self-love create new opportunities for people?