All About Love

Author and social activist bell hooks was born Gloria Jean Watkins. Her pen name is her great-grandmother’s name and she used lowercase letters to honor her great-grandmother, whom she greatly admired, and to show that the work itself mattered more than the person who wrote it. In All About Love, she examines how our understanding about love often falls short. She invites readers to consider a different kind of love that lends itself to compassion, forgiveness, and peace in our personal and professional lives and in our communities and beyond.