Daryl Davis

I have been attacked and mistreated for my skin colour since I was a child.

— Daryl Davis

Always keep the lines of communication open with your adversaries.

— Daryl Davis

The most powerful tools you can have are information and knowledge.

— Daryl Davis

I respect someone's right to air their views whether they are wrong or right.

— Daryl Davis

I try to bring out the humanity in people.

— Daryl Davis

Find someone who disagrees and invite them to your table.

— Daryl Davis

I have just about every book written on the Klan and I've read them all.

— Daryl Davis

There has always been a great deal of racism in the U.S. before and after Obama.

— Daryl Davis

I'm always thinking 'how can I blend something?' whether it's musical instruments, voices, or the people around me.

— Daryl Davis

I never set out to convert anyone in the Klan. I just set out to get an answer to my question: 'How…

— Daryl Davis

If you have an adversary, you don't have to respect what they're saying, but respect their right to say it.

— Daryl Davis

Every racist that I know - and I know a lot of racists - every racist that I know voted for Donald…

— Daryl Davis

Invite your enemies to sit down and join you. One small thing you say might give them food for though, and you…

— Daryl Davis

I decided to go around the country and sit down with Klan leaders and Klan members to find out: How can you…

— Daryl Davis

I've been playing music professionally, full time since 1980 when I graduated college at the age of 22.

— Daryl Davis

We spend too much time talking about each other, at each other, past each other, and not enough time talking with each…

— Daryl Davis

There are a lot of well meaning white liberals. And a lot of well meaning black liberals. But you know what? When…

— Daryl Davis

1983 - Country music had made a resurgence in this country so I joined a country band. I was the only black…

— Daryl Davis

Hate cultures are not a thing of the past. They're a continuing problem and one cannot blame presidencies for this. Racism in…

— Daryl Davis

I've heard stories of pickup bands that can't follow, but here's the thing: If you want to play with Chuck Berry, you…

— Daryl Davis

I don't believe that Donald Trump is a racist, per se. But some of the things that he does, some of the…

— Daryl Davis

You're not going to beat the meanness out of a mean dog. You start beating a mean dog, it's gonna become more…

— Daryl Davis

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

A Klan member is not stamped from a standard cookie cutter. They come from all walks of life and various education levels…

— Daryl Davis

The military doesn't teach rifle marksmanship. It teaches equipment familiarity. Despite what the officer corps thinks, learning to shoot a rifle is…

— Daryl Davis

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

There are plenty of people, including good friends of mine, who are not racist, and who voted for Trump. A lot of…

— Daryl Davis

Racism is a cancer. Black people have been dealing with this ever since we landed on these shores in shackles and chains.…

— Daryl Davis

Music teaches us how to work together, how to harmonize.

— Daryl Davis

Chuck Berry had a very profound impact on me. The man was a genius.

— Daryl Davis

You don't change the system without changing the people behind the system.

— Daryl Davis

When something bothers me, I try to learn about it.

— Daryl Davis

Music is indeed the universal language and unites people.

— Daryl Davis

If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.

— Daryl Davis

Am I going to vote for Trump? Absolutely not. I do not believe in his platform.

— Daryl Davis

When you make friends with me, you have a friend for life.

— Daryl Davis

When two enemies are talking, they're not fighting.

— Daryl Davis

He spoke nine languages. You know some people can just pick up an instrument and play. My father was like that with…

— Daryl Davis

If you have an adversary, an opponent with an opposing point of view, give that person a platform, regardless of how extreme…

— Daryl Davis

Everybody likes music. And rock 'n' roll - that was the music that brought white youth and black youth together for the…

— Daryl Davis