I have a huge issue with black-face, this is not some freak ... mockery black-face performance. This is on a very real, connected level. I've actually had to go there with the experience. Rachel Dolezal More Quotes by Rachel Dolezal More Quotes From Rachel Dolezal I am part of the pan-African diaspora. Rachel Dolezal ami-ampart 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 standfeelblackwhite 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-amjustblackrace I wish Americans understood that race is a social construct, even if we don't want it to be. Rachel Dolezal i-wishracewishwant In the Dolezal family, you couldn't always count on your parents to keep you safe. Rachel Dolezal yourparentsyoufamily 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 experienceblackagebeautiful 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 stayperformancesunsaid I was not born in a teepee - that I know of. I actually don't know where I was born. Rachel Dolezal i-was-bornwhereknowborn 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 childhoodshoesworklife 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 nobodypersonalidentitylife
