Zena Kay Gresham

“Being able to extend grace and to forgive people sets us free.”
― 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

“As I learned about U.S. history in school, I empathized with those whose free labor helped build this country. It never fails to trouble my mind (and hurt my heart) to think that just over a hundred and fifty years ago in the so-called land of the free, people owned other people. The institution of chattel slavery in America was as horrific as it was unconscionable.”
― Rachel Dolezal, In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World

“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