Rachel Dolezal

I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I didn't really have…

— Rachel Dolezal

I do wish I could have given myself permission to really name and own the me of me earlier in life.

— Rachel Dolezal

I certainly don't stay out of the sun, and I also don't, as some of my critics have said, put on blackface…

— Rachel Dolezal

I'm this generic, ambiguous scapegoat for white people to call me a race traitor and take out their hostility on. And I'm…

— Rachel Dolezal

I am part of the pan-African diaspora.

— Rachel Dolezal

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

— Rachel Dolezal

I stand by my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement.

— Rachel Dolezal

From a very young age, I felt a spiritual, visceral, instinctual connection with 'black is beautiful.' Just the black experience and wanting…

— Rachel Dolezal

I stand on the black side of issues, philosophically, politically, socially, and for me to not check that box, I felt like,…

— Rachel Dolezal

About five years old, I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon and, you know, the black…

— Rachel Dolezal

It's taken my entire life to negotiate how to identify, and I've done a lot of research and a lot of studying,…

— Rachel Dolezal

I think there's definitely a stereotype of white privilege, and that stereotype gets expanded to mean rich, not oppressed, not suffering, et…

— Rachel Dolezal

People didn't seem able to consider that maybe both were true. OK, I was born to white parents, but maybe I had…

— Rachel Dolezal

My life is not a sound bite.

— Rachel Dolezal

I want to provide for my kids.

— Rachel Dolezal

It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the…

— Rachel Dolezal

There's no such thing as racial, non-white supremacy.

— Rachel Dolezal

In order to really move toward what people really think of as some sort of Utopian post-racial society or somehow to really…

— Rachel Dolezal

I really just prefer to be exactly who I am, and black is really the closest race and cultural category that represents…

— Rachel Dolezal

I've never been fully transparent or an open book, even to those you'd call close friends.

— Rachel Dolezal

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

— Rachel Dolezal

If people feel misled or deceived, then sorry that they feel that way, but I believe that's more due to their definition…

— Rachel Dolezal

It's not something that I can put on and take off anymore, like I said, I've had my years of confusion and…

— Rachel Dolezal

I would pretend to be a dark-skinned princess in the Sahara Desert or one of the Bantu women living in the Congo...…

— Rachel Dolezal

I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I really didn't have…

— Rachel Dolezal