86 Quotes by Daryl Davis

I didn't vote for Trump, but I do believe his coming to power has done its own bit of good. People are coming out to protest against issues they so far didn't talk about - sexual abuse, gun control, racism - because a bunch of crazies are out propagating them.

I came into music kind of late in life - until I was 17 I wanted to be a spy, wanted to be James Bond, so I had to learn rather quickly and practice longer than most people did to play catch up.

You cannot hate the hate out of a person. You cannot beat the hate out of a person. But you can love it out of a person.

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

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

There are a lot of well meaning white liberals. And a lot of well meaning black liberals. But you know what? When all they do is sit around and preach to the choir it does absolutely no good. If you're not a racist it doesn't do any good for me to meet with you and sit around and talk about how bad racism is.

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

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

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.