"When I was a kid, some of the guys would try to get me to hate white people for what they've been doing to Negroes, and for a while I tried real hard. But every time I got to hating them, some white guy would come along and mess the whole thing up." -- Thelonious Monk [1]

It seems like he had some good personal interactions with white people.

[1] http://www.musicwithease.com/thelonious-monk-quotes.html