Richard Dawson

I've had the most incredible luck in my career.

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.

Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.

There were people I know that got upset that I kissed people; I kissed them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me. There were people upset that I would embrace or hug someone of another color.

It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?

God bless all the little children in the world.

And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... God makes people. You understand that, don't you?' And I said, 'Yeah!' She said, 'Who makes a rainbow?"" I said, 'God.' She said, 'I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.'

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.

The thing that I loved about 'Feud,' we froze a moment in time for these families that had never occurred before. That's magic.

The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England.