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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
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I think that it is too common for white feminists to say, 'We want some diversity. Come join our movement about gender, but we want you to check the class and race at the door.' And you can't undo that braid of race, class, and gender: all three intersect with each other, so it's important for more education to be done about that.

You can't just say in one sentence what is blackness or what is black culture or what makes you who you are.

I want to provide for my kids.

I would pretend to be a dark-skinned princess in the Sahara Desert or one of the Bantu women living in the Congo... imagining I was a different person living in a different place was one of the few ways... that I could escape the oppressive environment I was raised in.

If people feel misled or deceived, then sorry that they feel that way, but I believe that's more due to their definition and construct of race in their own minds than it is to my integrity or honesty, because I wouldn't say I'm African American, but I would say I'm black, and there's a difference in those terms.

You can't just say in one sentence what is blackness or what is black culture or what makes you who you are.

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

I was presented as a con and a fraud and a liar. I think some of the treatment was pretty cruel.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.