Candace Owens

For so long, black conservatives have not been able to have a voice; people who have bi-racial children, people in bi-racial relationships, it has been so black and white. I blame Obama. His eight years in office did a lot of damage in terms of race relations in this country. ”

I always say I was a liberal, but I wasn't active in politics. I just assumed I was a liberal because I was black and I was a woman. And I know now that sounds really foolish, but I had different priorities. ”

Racism exists, but it is far less rampant than ignorance, and ignorance can be cured through experience. ”

I learned conservatism through my grandfather; I didn't know that was the name. I didn't know these were conservative principles. Starting his life on a sharecropping farm. Working tremendously hard. Five years old, picking cotton and laying tobacco out to dry on a farm, and today he now owns that farm. ”

Long before Donald Trump came down the escalator, Kanye West was public enemy No. 1 for simply trying to tell the truth to people about things that were going on, so I'm unsurprised that he supports me and my ideas and me just thinking freely. ”

The black community is broken up in general. ”

I don't come from a family that had the money to put me through college, so I left school with $100,000 in student loan debt. ”

I grew up in a household listening to hip-hop music. ”

If you are born black, and you don't accept your natural status as a victim, then the validity of your blackness is immediately called into question. ”

I was a first-generation college student. This was supposed to be the ticket to prosperity. But it wasn't. I left college with a mountain of debt and no practical skills. ”