86 Quotes by Daryl Davis

I'd had a racist experience as a child at age 10, where people had thrown rocks at me and bottles. I didn't understand. And all it was, was because of the color of my skin, nothing I had done, nothing I had said.

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

I have a former Baltimore City police officer's uniform and his robe and hood. He was the grand dragon, which means state leader. His day job, what paid his bills, he was a Baltimore City police officer, not an undercover officer in the Klan gathering intelligence, but a bona fide Klansmen on the Baltimore City police force.

When I experienced racism here in my own country, I was not prepared for it. I had never heard the word racism.

It doesn't sound rational for a Klansman to sit down to dinner with a black man. What you're overlooking is, to be racist is to be irrational. So, they are already irrational, and irrational people do irrational things. That's why a Klansman will sit down with me.

I don't have any brothers and sisters, so I always relied on my parents to guide me or answer questions.

I try to bring out the humanity in people.

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

Knowledge, information, wit, and the way you disseminate these attributes can often prove to be a more disarming weapon against an enemy or some with whom your ideology is in conflict, than violence or lethal weapons.