Rachel Dolezal Quotes

• It's not something that I can put on and take off anymore, like I said, I've had my years of confusion and wondering who I really (was) and why and how do I live my life and make sense of it all, but I'm not confused about that any longer. I think the world might be -- but I'm not.

  Rachel Dolezal

  Life, Confused, Thinking

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• It's taken my entire life to negotiate how to identify, and I've done a lot of research and a lot of studying, i could have a long conversation, an academic conversation about that. I don't know. I just feel like I didn't mislead anybody; I didn't deceive anybody.

  Rachel Dolezal

  Life, Taken, Long

  "Rachel Dolezal's True Lies" by Allison Samuels, www.vanityfair.com. July 19, 2015.

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• I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I really didn't have the personal agency to express it, i kind of imagined that maybe at some point (I'd have to) own it publicly and discuss this kind of complexity.

  Rachel Dolezal

  Life, Agency, Identity

  "Watch Rachel Dolezal’s Long, Unbelievably Incoherent". Interview with Melissa Harris-Perry, www.nationalreview.com. June 17, 2015.

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• It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley.

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  Justice, President, Vices

  "Rachel Dolezal Resigns as Spokane NAACP President" by Inae Oh, www.motherjones.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I have a huge issue with blackface.

  Rachel Dolezal

  Issues, Blackface, Huge

  "As Rachel Dolezal Breaks Silence, a Roundtable Discussion on Race, Appropriation and Identity". www.democracynow.org. June 17, 2015.

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

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  Law, Justice, Enforcement

  "Former NAACP leader in Washington state could face firing from police panel". www.businessinsider.com. June 18, 2015.

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• Overall, my life has been one of survival and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.

  Rachel Dolezal

  Life, Decision, Survival

  "Rachel Dolezal breaks her silence on TODAY: 'I identify as black'". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. June 16, 2015.

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