And then bell hooks came up to the lectern and began to speak. It's really kind of disappointing, that I left this difficult work behind to write about love. And, you know, it just continues to alter me, because I think that love is so much the difficult work. I think we lost so much in our lives, in our movements for social justice, our revolutionary, visionary struggles because we have not known how to let love be the foundation of that struggle.
Love is profoundly political.
Our deepest revolution will come when we understand this truth. Martin Luther King urged us to remember that love transforms with redemptive power. To return to love, making it a central issue without evidence for collective recovery and healing, is not a move away from revolutionary political action. U nless love is the force undergirding our efforts to transform society, we lose our way. In the diaspora, most black people's relation to love has been shaped by the trauma of abandonment.