"The reason racism is a feminist issue is easily explained by the inherent definition of feminism.  Feminism is the political theory and practice to free all women: women of color, working-class women, poor women, physically challenged women, lesbians, old women--as well as white economically privileged heterosexual women.  Anything less than this is not feminism, but merely female self-aggrandizement."

Barbara Smith, THE TRUTH THAT NEVER HURTS: WRITINGS ON RACE, GENDER, AND FREEDOM (Rutgers University Press, 1998), p. 96