I've been playing music professionally, full time since 1980 when I graduated college at the age of 22. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Music is my profession but learning more about racism on all sides of the tracks was my obsession. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Music absolutely played a massive role in bridging many gaps in the racial divides I would encounter. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Everybody likes music. And rock 'n' roll - that was the music that brought white youth and black youth together for the… — 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
My parents were U.S. Foreign Service, so I spent a lot of time you know, overseas in various countries around the world,… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
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… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
1983 - Country music had made a resurgence in this country so I joined a country band. I was the only black… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
We would not have rock and roll without Chuck Berry, and when I first heard Chuck Berry, I fell in love with… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
I came into music kind of late in life - until I was 17 I wanted to be a spy, wanted to… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
A lot of the media says, 'oh, black musician converts X-number of Klansmen.' I never converted one. But over 200 have left… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Venues had segregated seating - but when Chuck Berry fused together blues, boogie-woogie and country music, it caused people not to be… — 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 Image
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 Image
I have been attacked and mistreated for my skin colour since I was a child. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
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 Image
At the end, ignorance is the source of biases. If we cure that, there's nothing to fear and hate. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
