Back in the day, prior to rock and roll, music halls, concert venues were segregated if they allowed black people in at all. You know, there were ropes that went around the sitting sections with signs hanging that would say,… — 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 able to sit still. They bounced up out of their seats, knocking over ropes, dancing together. — 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
