I don’t think you can do something wrong with your identity if you’re living in your authenticity. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
Hopefully, even if I am judged or there’s confusion, anger, about how I identify, I hope that people can understand that family is fluid. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
In order to really move toward what people really think of as some sort of Utopian post-racial society or somehow to really challenge the racial hierarchy, we’re going to have to allow some fluidity. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
From a very young age, I felt a spiritual, visceral, instinctual connection with ‘black is beautiful.’ Just the black experience and wanting to celebrate that. And I didn’t know how to articulate that as a young child. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
If somebody has hope, don’t take that away from them, because maybe that’s all they have. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
I really just prefer to be exactly who I am, and black is really the closest race and cultural category that represents the essence of who I am. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
I would pretend to be a dark-skinned princess in the Sahara Desert or one of the Bantu women living in the Congo… imagining I was a different person living in a different place was one of the few ways… that I could escape the oppressive environment I was raised in. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote