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After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Race in America has always centered on our mutual agreement not to see each other. White or non-white. Black or non-black. Mongoloid, Hindoo. We've always bought into to the crudest, humanity-denying forms of sorting.

While it is desirable to build up the colored race, we must not sacrifice our best and purest white friends.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.

I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses, and everything else, it is hard for to believe the white man any more.