The system of racial classification is fiction, and we need to thoughtfully evaluate whether perpetuating it rigidly or allowing fluidity across the spectrum best supports human rights and social justice. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
I wish Americans understood that race is a social construct, even if we don’t want it to be. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
In the Dolezal family, you couldn’t always count on your parents to keep you safe. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
I certainly don’t stay out of the sun, and I also don’t, as some of my critics have said, put on blackface as a performance. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
I really feel like there have been moments of some level of creative nonfiction. I have kind of had to explain or justify some of the timeline and logistics of my life in a way that made sense to others. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
I definitely feel like, in America, even though race is a social construct… there’s still a line drawn in the sand; there still are sides. Politically, there’s a black side and a white side, and I stand unapologetically on the black side. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
I’m this generic, ambiguous scapegoat for white people to call me a race traitor and take out their hostility on. And I’m a target for anger and pain about white people from the black community. It’s like I am the worst of all these worlds. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
