I need to be in touch with the people. You've got to look in their eyes, and you've got to feel what… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
When people get up on the stage and say, "I've got AIDS," or "I'm in recovery," gosh, it's hard for them. It's like that… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
I need to be in touch with the people. You've got to look in their eyes, and you've got to feel what they feel.… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
The music certainly plays a major role. You can be free enough to comfort each other, to touch each other, to embrace each other,… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
Any racism or barriers that may be put up, you get a tremendous sense of resistance. The more you push me, the greater I… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
I don't go and study other folks. I come from where I came from, as a kid, in the little black church I grew… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
When the musician starts improvising, he never can go back to what he did last Sunday. That's what's frightening to a lot of people… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in being an intellectual or in being traditional, conventional. I'm not interested in having great wisdom. I'm not interested in those… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
There's great poetry in the Old Testament and the New Testament. And I'm not interested in trying to prove whether this paragraph is as… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
I have excessive energy, tremendous energy. I have a sense of people. I can feel them, pretty much so, in a short time. I'm… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
Death is a reality, but life is a reality also. You got to live at this time in your life like you've never lived… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
I'm a folk preacher. A folk therapist. A folk musician. I come from authentically that which is of my experience. Therefore, the music is… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
If you got the truth, you put it out there, and everybody says, "Oh, my God. That's me." And then they improvise also. They… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
