50 Quotes by Rachel Dolezal

I have a huge issue with blackface.

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.

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.

Any man can be a father; not any man can be a dad.

It's a painful thing to talk about my childhood. I kind of don't talk about it much.

I don't believe in reverse racism. I really don't.

Everybody's life matters. But that's why we have to say black lives matter, because the highest disproportionality, police brutality, disenfranchisement, education disproportionality in school discipline, curriculum, misrepresentation, all of this.

I stand on the black side of issues, philosophically, politically, socially, and for me to not check that box, I felt like, would be some sort of betrayal of not only who I am but also the community I affiliate with.

I don't think you can do something wrong with your identity if you're living in your authenticity.