Rachel Dolezal Quotes

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I'm like, 'This is me. I'm black. Black Lives Matter. Black pride. Look at my cocoa skin.' I just feel it's my being.

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

I'm not going to be one of those people who says, 'I'm a showrunner; I'm not a black showrunner.' I'm black when I go to sleep. I'm black when I wake up, period. It doesn't affect my perspective on everything, but at the same time, it's who I am, and I'm proud of it.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's ridiculous.

I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.

Learn to love being black.

Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.

I think, as a black man, I have a responsibility to have knowledge and have an opinion.

I think that's what's so great about 'Jessica James' is you get to sit back and take a moment and realize that this person is black. And some days, this character wakes up and feels black, and some days, she doesn't. That is, for me, a fully black experience.

I love being black.

I don't need to tell myself that I'm black or that I'm proud of being black. I just am, and it just doesn't matter.

Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something that our parents instilled in us extraordinarily well.

Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black.

In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own

The New Black doesn’t blame other races for our issues. The New Black dreams and realizes that it’s not a pigmentation: it’s a mentality and it’s either going to work for you, or it’s going to work against you. And you’ve got to pick the side you’re going to be on.

When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

One must learn how to be black in America.

I am proud of my black roots and of the black blood that runs in my veins.

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'

I do consider myself part of black history.