Rachel Dolezal Quotes

No one actually cares about blackface.

Not that long ago - in my parents' lives, in fact - actors in minstrel shows wore blackface to mimic and mock African Americans. These performances were based in contempt and gave people an opportunity to act out their prejudices.

Like, Australians definitely don't walk around dressed up in blackface going, 'Ha-ha.'

There's a big difference between being racist and racially insensitive.

I am very concerned about Barbara Streisand using the 'H' word - 'honkey.' That's what I am concerned about. I am worried about Barbara.

It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.

Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.

I've heard about productions where it still happens: yellow face, taping up the eyes. It's hard to talk about it in a constructive way.

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.

When I first saw a White Dutch person dressed up as Black Pete, I was both sickened and shocked. It's hard to stand next to someone who views your skin color and hair as a costume. As a filmmaker, whenever I get that feeling, I want to explore what motivates people to engage in such offensive behavior and enlighten folks about its origins.

I get offended when people say, 'So, being a white rapper...and growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!

I'm racist? How can that even be possible? I was a friend of Michael Jackson's back when he was black.

It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean? Do you understand that's an insult?

Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

I ain't never called nobody no redskin. I've never been mad, like, 'Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.'

I felt pretty good growing up. I didn't feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.

It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the exception and not the rule.

You face racism in small and large ways.

This practice of skinny actresses donning fat suits is essentially the new and acceptable blackface in Hollywood.

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.