Rachel Lindsay

“Especially as a woman, the jury sums you up immediately and is listening to everything you're saying. You have to be on your game all the time, and that prepares you for being in front of the camera. The difference is, when I am in front of a jury, I am not talking about my emotions and my life.”

“It is so easy to fall victim of everybody else's definition of what you should be.”

“I've always wanted to get married and have a family, but I'm not the girl who sat down and planned out her wedding, her dress, or how everything would go with the proposal.”

“I am a never-say-never person.”

“I need to be able to cook for my kids.”

“My social media, I think I had 700 followers before, now it's like 800,000.”

“I'm looking for extraordinary. I'm looking for a man who I see and it makes me melt.”

“I'm a huge Russell Westbrook fan. I pretend I know him, I call him Rusty. But I love his style and someone who steps out out of the box and is bold and that's him.”

“I am a proud, not Texan, but a citizen of Dallas.”

“You never want to bite the hand that feeds you, but you also do not want to be aiding and abetting problematic behavior.”

“I would say an eyebrow pencil - a brush and pencil, I cannot leave home without that. Definitely concealer, just because of traveling all the time. I use MAC, and the color I use is a mix between NC42 and NC45. I cannot leave home without that because I'm blotchy. Otherwise, I would say mascara.”

“Any date that requires you to don a plastic poncho while inside an establishment with a liquor license is going to be incredible.”

“I'm so humbled and honored to be chosen to represent myself as a black woman to America, and I look at it as such a positive. That's what made me move forward and want to embrace being the first black Bachelorette.”

“You have to know what you want and focus on that.”

“My dad is a judge, but he started off as an attorney. He is one of my biggest role models; both of my parents are. So, from a young age, I said I wanted to be an attorney.”

“I'm in this thing, you know. I'm 'Bachelor' Nation, I'm a part of the franchise.”

“I'm very excited to be partnering with Vaseline because I've been a fan for years. It's products I grew up with - my mom always used them on us - and now, I use it all, from the petroleum jelly to the lip gloss and lotion.”

“You know, I really don't have a specific race that I go towards or that I typically date.”

“If the National Football League, an organization notoriously known for not standing behind their athletes of color, can come out to make a statement to condemn racism and their systemic oppression and admit they were wrong for not listening in the past, then the 'Bachelor' franchise can most certainly follow suit.”

“My sister is married to a white guy, so it's nothing new for our family.”