Rachel Dolezal might have been born a white woman in Montana, but she calls herself "unapologetically black." Now jobless and selling paintings to get by, the former head of the Spokane, Wash., chapter of the NAACP—who has legally changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo, meaning "gift from the gods"—tells the AP she's written a memoir so people can "know the whole truth of my life story." Some standout quotes from In Full Color from the AP and the New York Post:
- On drawing self-portraits as a child: "I usually picked a brown crayon rather than a peach one … I felt black and saw myself as black."
- On her version of childhood fun: "[I would] make thin, soupy mud, which I would then rub on my hands, arms, feet, and legs … I would pretend to be a dark-skinned princess in the Sahara Desert."
- On meeting her adopted black siblings at age 10: "For the first time in my life, I felt like I was truly part of a family."