50 Quotes by Rachel Dolezal

I am part of the pan-African diaspora.

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.

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.

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.

I wish Americans understood that race is a social construct, even if we don't want it to be.

In the Dolezal family, you couldn't always count on your parents to keep you safe.

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.

I'm more black than I am white. That's the accurate answer from my truth.

I was not born in a teepee - that I know of. I actually don't know where I was born.