Zena Kay Gresham

“If you’re having fun, you’re sinning” was the message my parents drilled into my head at a very young age. Taught that my natural behavior was somehow wrong, I learned to censor and repress myself, and cried myself to sleep nearly every single night during my tween and teen years, with my face jammed into a pillow so nobody would hear.”
― Rachel Dolezal, In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World

“If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.”
― Albert Einstein

“While I may have been able to flee the racial discrimination that was so common in Birmingham when I was a child, it continued to haunt me throughout my adult life. I did my best to combat racism with the most positive attitude”
― Rachel Dolezal, In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World

“In the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court attempted to clarify the existing racial classifications when it established the “one drop rule”—those with a single Black relative, no matter how distant, were considered Black, even if they appeared white—but this decision only muddled an already complicated issue.”
― Rachel Dolezal, In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World