86 Quotes by Daryl Davis

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 choice because he or she does not have the proper facts. If you give that person the facts and the proper information you have alleviated that ignorance, and they make the right decision.

I did not vote for Donald Trump and I do not support him but I believe that Trump is the best thing to happen to this country in a long time. He's bringing out the country's ugliness. There's no turning a blind eye anymore.

Music is my profession but learning more about racism on all sides of the tracks was my obsession.

It was incomprehensible to me that someone who had never seen me before, someone who knew absolutely nothing about me, would want to inflict pain upon me for no other reason than the color of my skin.

A stupid person is someone who has the facts, who has the proper information, and still makes the wrong decision.

It's very important that we learn how to communicate... and learn to respect each other.

In most of my encounters with Klan members, we would discuss reasons for why they were members in the first place.

Music is indeed the universal language and unites people.

If you spend five minutes with your worst enemy - it doesn't have to be about race, it could be about anything... you will find that you both have something in common. As you build upon those commonalities, you're forming a relationship and as you build about that relationship, you're forming a friendship.