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Article: All About Love: New Visions
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- Black Issues Book Review
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- March 1, 2000
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All About Love: New Visions
by bell hooks
William Morrow & Co., January 2000, 240 pp., $22.00, ISBN 0-688-16844-2
Prophets and leaders the world over have taught that love is the path to changing the world. Gandhi said we need to "be the change we wish to see," to set an example by right living. Martin Luther King Jr. taught forgiveness and love for one's enemies as the road to true liberation. In her 17th book, All About Love -- New Visions, bell hooks takes up the mantle and calls society to task for the lack of love in our lives while offering a clear blueprint on how to get to a place where we can heal our hearts and souls of fear and cynicism, greed, and selfishness, by opening ...