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:
“We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this reality and long for the safety and familiarity of sameness, inclusive ways of knowing and living offer us the only true way to emancipate ourselves from the divisions that limit our minds and imaginations.”
—bell hooks (b. 1955)
“Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as “not black enough.” ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)
“Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)