Quotes from Rachel Lindsay

I can tell you my dream bachelorette party, but I cannot tell you my dream wedding.

Knowing that I was potentially going to be the first black Bachelorette actually held me back from wanting to do it. With the first, there's always so much pressure. And I knew I was going to be new to the audience as a lead for a number of reasons - being over 30, being a career woman, and also being black.

I just wear like a powder, like a Bare Minerals, maybe some Nars, like a bronzer or blush, light gloss for my lips. That's pretty much it. Mascara.

I know there are going to be people who criticize what I do no matter what, but I'm just trying to not get caught up in it.

I don't want to critique an apology. An apology is an apology.

I love Dallas.

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.

For 'The Bachelor,' I went through the entire process and was told I was chosen, and then I told my boss... It turned out that my boss was a huge fan of the show, and he was ecstatic. My promise to my firm was that I would do the filming then go back to work, and I did.

I started off as a prosecutor and I would be sitting there, waiting for the defense attorney to come, and they would either bypass me because they would assume that I'm not the attorney or they would assume that I was the legal secretary or a paralegal - never the attorney.

Football, basketball, and track are my favorites, but I really enjoy watching all sports.

I have a big personality, and people feed off that.

Men know what they want when we help them figure it out. We make them think they figured it out by themselves. They really didn't. We know we did it, and that's a woman's job.

Life is hard so why does my relationship have to be hard at the same time?

I run away from the one who is good on paper - the one who has it all together - and I run toward the one that's more complicated, and who I can fix and we can work on it together.

I spent much of my adult life focusing on my career and I take pride in my achievements in my field.

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

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

I freelance as a sports broadcaster.

I'm happy to represent myself as a black woman in front of America and I'm happy for America to rally behind me and see what it's like for me to be on this journey to find love. Honestly, it's not going to be that different from any other season of 'The Bachelorette.'

I'm looking for a guy who can make me laugh, who knows exactly what he wants, who's ambitious, ready to start a family, ready to get married.

Pop culture does not frequently depict women of color realizing their happy ending.

You cannot reason with delusion.

I think it is fair to say that I was denied my on-camera happy ending.