Zena Kay Gresham

“If I was to stay healthy, I knew I needed to limit the amount of sorrow in my life and increase the amount of love.”
― Rachel Dolezal, In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World

“And for Trayvon Martin, a seventeen-year-old high school student, it was carrying candy while walking through a gated community in Sanford, Florida, on February 26, 2012; he died after George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch coordinator, confronted Martin and shot him in the chest. When Trayvon Martin was shot—and even more so when George Zimmerman was later acquitted—mothers of Black boys nationwide went into a state of emergency, and I was no different.”
― Rachel Dolezal, In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World

“the whole world rejects you, what’s the point in sticking around? Life is already too difficult and too painful to take on the added burden of being without a community, quarantined in solitary confinement psychologically, intuitively, and emotionally. Was there a place for me in this world?”
― Rachel Dolezal, In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World

“But from my experience dealing with hate groups I can tell you that ignoring them is not the best strategy. Threats that get ignored don’t go away. They fester. They gain momentum. And soon the little problem you once casually disregarded has turned into an enormous one you’ll never be able to forget.”
― Rachel Dolezal, In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World