Rachel Dolezal Quotes

There is no self-portrait of me.

When I was teeny tiny, I definitely had a voice that didn't quite match the way I looked at five.

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.

My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.

I was not an attractive child. When I didn't use my Girl Scouts uniform as a uniform, I used it as a tent.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

I happen to be in a line of work where I get given lots of clothes, and I definitely think it's fun, but I know that, ultimately, fashion is not that important. I use fashion, though, as a way of thinking about who I am.

I did not want to be the gay artist, and I talked to my manager all the time, like, I don't want to lead with that. I didn't want people to look at me like that's all I am.

I don't want to shut the door and only be thought of as the dark girl.

I've been writing stories all my life. My very first story had two little black girls riding horses. They were both me, too, so that's how into me I was.

I think my whole career has been marked - or marred - by what people presume about me. But even that's fed back into the creativity. I'm saying that I'm about contradiction, that you can't put me into a box.

I like to think of myself as a true artist.

Here I am, the artist, the person, the black woman, and the stereotype. I'm using myself and it has nothing to do with my muses or other women. It has to do with me. You see parts of my body moving, very collage like, flashing, and not speaking, just laying on a couch, looking out at the viewer.

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

Names aren't just coathooks, they're coats. They're the first thing anyone knows about you.

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

I feel like I'll always be a brunette, that's just who I am, but I love that I can switch it up and be whatever I want to be.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.

When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

I remember seeing 'Snow White' and saying to my mother, 'Will there ever be a Chocolate Brown?' She said 'Probably. Why not?' I just never thought the first black princess would be me.