Imagination is affected by every aspect of our life – from race, economic class, gender, creed, etc.. Who we are whether it be gay, black, straight, Muslim, rich, or poor, our experiences affect the way we think and therefore affect the way that we imagine. This relationship between imagination and experience is broadened to explore the correlation between imagination and politics in Bell Hooks’ Black Vernacular: Architecture as Cultural Practice.
In Hooks’ piece, she explores how the socio-economic class of many is assumed to drive one’s imagination. It is perceived that those of lower class cannot imagine or have an aesthetic taste. Hooks, however, disputes this claim in saying “the lack of material privilege need not be synonymous with poverty of spirit or imagination” (150). She strengthens her claim by expressing the fact 
that everyone makes do with their circumstances and finds way to uniquely express themselves. However, the stereotype of lack of imagination is reinforced with the introduction of public housing such as the projects, that of which all present uniformity and suppresses the opportunity for creativity.
While class and other factors, like Hooks argues, does not necessarily limit imagination, it does affect our imagination. This leads to the idea that politics is tied to imagination because imagination allows us to think about how we want out government to be run and the life we want to create. This goes vice versa in that politics also allows to reimagine the type of world we want to live in.