Hooks

Hooks may refer to:

Surnames
  • bell hooks, American author, feminist, and social activist
  • Benjamin Hooks, American civil rights leader
  • Brian Hooks, American actor, writer, and director
  • Charles Hooks (1768 - 1843) was a United States Representative from North Carolina
  • George Hooks, Democratic member of the Georgia Senate
  • Jan Hooks, American actress and comedian
  • Kevin Hooks, American actor and film director
  • Lonna Hooks, the former Secretary of State of New Jersey
  • Mitchell Hooks, American artist and illustrator
  • Robert Hooks, American actor
  • Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Olympic track and field athlete
Fictional characters
  • Laverne Hooks, of Police Academy
Sports franchises
  • The Corpus Christi Hooks, a Minor League team playing in the Texas League.
Other
  • Hooks, Texas
  • Hooks (grappling) Grappling term for the use of feet and legs to control an opponent.

Famous quotes containing the word hooks:

    “... the function of art is to do more than tell it like it is—it’s to imagine what is possible.”
    —bell hooks (b. c. 1955)

    “The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. That action is the testimony of love as the practice of freedom.”
    —bell hooks (b. c. 1955)

    “Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever:
    Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more;
    Senec and Plato call me from thy lore,
    To perfect wealth my wit for to endeavour.”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)