October 18, 2026

Make Love A Verb

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

bell hooks wrote this in All About Love: New Visions, published in 1999, at a moment when she saw American culture obsessed with romance yet starved for real connection. She wanted to strip love of its sentimental haze and return it to the realm of will, choice, and daily practice. For hooks, meaning was never found in abstract longing but built through concrete acts of care, commitment, and accountability. This reframing matters now because it hands purpose back to us as something we do, not something that happens to us.