I’ve never been fully transparent or an open book, even to those you’d call close friends. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
Have I had experiences by other people identifying me as black and behaving towards me as black? Yes. Just for as long as maybe somebody who was born categorised as black? No. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
What I believe about race is that race is not real. It’s not a biological reality. It’s a hierarchical system that was created to leverage power and privilege between different groups of people. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
I think some people feel that if you question the reality of race, you’re questioning racism; you’re saying racism isn’t real. Racism is real because people actually believe race is real. We’d have to really let go of the 500-year-old idea of race as a worldview in order to undo racism. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
My husband didn’t want me to wear any black hairstyles. Nicole Kidman was his standard of beauty. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
As long as I can remember, I saw myself as black. I was socially conditioned to discard that. It was an all-white town. I was very unhappy. I felt like I was constantly self-sabotaging in order to conform to religion, culture dynamics. I was censoring myself. I was shutting down inside. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
I do wish I could have given myself permission to really name and own the me of me earlier in life. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I didn’t really have the personal agency to express it. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
I did work and bought all my own clothes and shoes since I was 9 years old. That’s not a typical American childhood life. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
