Rachel Dolezal Born : November 12, 1977 Browse All Authors Top 51 quotes by Rachel Dolezal If somebody has hope, don't take that away from them, because maybe that's all they have. Rachel Dolezal somebody away because hope I am part of the pan-African diaspora. Rachel Dolezal am i-am part 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 stand feel black white 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 i-am just black race I wish Americans understood that race is a social construct, even if we don't want it to be. Rachel Dolezal i-wish race wish want In the Dolezal family, you couldn't always count on your parents to keep you safe. Rachel Dolezal your parents you family 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 experience black age beautiful 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 stay performance sun said I was not born in a teepee - that I know of. I actually don't know where I was born. Rachel Dolezal i-was-born where know born 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. Rachel Dolezal childhood shoes work 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. Rachel Dolezal nobody personal identity life