Salvation: Black People and Love (Love Song to the Nation) Paperback – 2 Jun. 2016

I’m such a fan of Hooks work, this is a great book to read. Not what I thought, in a good way.

An excellent book that every black person should read at least twice a year or more.This book made me realise my own precious sense of self as a black woman.The awfulness of how negative and damaging a childhood black people can have.It can ruin self-esteem making a lot of us feel angry, critical negativeand constantly putting ourselves down or dissing other black people all the time.I can relate to all the many years of damage that black fathers especially can do.They descend on the home like a great black cloud or an ogre with their controlling ways, negativity, and various forms of abuse. A black child can feel such and despair struggling to appeal to often disinterested parents who are usually at loggerheads themselves. Where your best just isn't good enough and often our own black relatives are our worst enemies. Constantly finding fault instead of a balance of praise and constructive criticism.It made me especially upset to read about the guy in prison who suddenly found compassion for his other inmates.but is trapped on death row.But there is great hope. We have to look in the mirror and constantly remind ourselves of our own magnificence andFirmly keep our goals in sight and achieve them as quickly as possible at times keeping them to ourselves until they materialise.Relate to friends and family who accentuate the positive in you and steer clear from those who don't.Be firm and take no nonsense from relatives who always seek to be critical and damaging in their influence andoften expecting you to explain yourself. WHAT FOR????Flee from relationships where the other person tries to press your buttons all the time. This is neither respect or real love!!As black people we should read more and be much more pro-active in what we wish to achieve and want our lives to reflect.God Willing.