You don't change the system without changing the people behind the system. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
He spoke nine languages. You know some people can just pick up an instrument and play. My father was like that with… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
I'm always thinking 'how can I blend something?' whether it's musical instruments, voices, or the people around me. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Some black people who have not heard me interviewed or read my book jump to conclusions and prejudge me... I've been called… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
People learn racism through dialogue. Somebody tells them about it. So if you can learn it through dialogue, you can also unlearn… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Back in the day, prior to rock and roll, music halls, concert venues were segregated if they allowed black people in at… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
I'd had a racist experience as a child at age 10, where people had thrown rocks at me and bottles. I didn't… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
There are many controversial topics out there - abortion, nuclear weapons, the 2nd Amendment, guns, whatever, the war in Iraq. You're going… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
It doesn't sound rational for a Klansman to sit down to dinner with a black man. What you're overlooking is, to be… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
I knew as much about the Klan, if not more than many of the Klan people that I interviewed. When they see… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
My father was the first black Secret Service agent. He wanted to get into the FBI but J. Edgar Hoover, who was… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Racism is a cancer. Black people have been dealing with this ever since we landed on these shores in shackles and chains.… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
There are plenty of people, including good friends of mine, who are not racist, and who voted for Trump. A lot of… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body. — Daryl Davis Copy Share
They've changed the name from white supremacy to white separatists, to white nationalists, to alt-right. It's the same thing. A rose by any other… — Daryl Davis Copy Share
If you have an adversary, an opponent with an opposing point of view, give that person a platform, regardless of how extreme it may… — Daryl Davis Copy Share
At the end, ignorance is the source of biases. If we cure that, there's nothing to fear and hate. — Daryl Davis Copy Share
There's a difference between being ignorant and being stupid... For me, an ignorant person is someone who makes the wrong decision or a bad… — Daryl Davis Copy Share
Our society can only become one of two things, it can be become what we let it become or it can become what we… — Daryl Davis Copy Share
If you were to talk to somebody from Georgia you would understand what he's saying, he wouldn't sound like your next-door neighbor in Montana,… — Daryl Davis Copy Share
Every racist that I know - and I know a lot of racists - every racist that I know voted for Donald Trump. — Daryl Davis Copy Share
It was incomprehensible to me that someone who had never seen me before, someone who knew absolutely nothing about me, would want to inflict… — Daryl Davis Copy Share
The most important thing I learned is that when you are actively learning about someone else you are passively teaching them about yourself. — Daryl Davis Copy Share
You're not going to beat the meanness out of a mean dog. You start beating a mean dog, it's gonna become more mean. You… — Daryl Davis Copy Share
He spoke nine languages. You know some people can just pick up an instrument and play. My father was like that with languages. — Daryl Davis Copy Share
Music absolutely played a massive role in bridging many gaps in the racial divides I would encounter. — Daryl Davis Copy Share
