- Lived:
- 1952–2021 · Hopkinsville and Berea, Kentucky, by way of Stanford, Yale, and New York
- Tradition:
- Black feminist thought; cultural criticism; the philosophy and ethics of love and teaching
- The Big Idea:
- Racism, sexism, and economic exploitation are not separate problems but one interlocking system — and the force strong enough to oppose that system is love, practiced deliberately, as an action rather than a feeling.
- In their words:
- "Feminism is for everybody."
- If you remember one thing:
- She spelled her name in lowercase so that readers would focus on her ideas instead of her — and her central idea was that love, done seriously, is the hardest and most political work there is.