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:

    “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)

    “... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, or we are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose.”
    —bell hooks (b. c. 1955)

    “... 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)