--- title: "1 Rejection White Quotes By Cecil Williams" description: "1 Rejection White quotes by Cecil Williams. Plus more from Cecil Williams and more Rejection White sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7aa/cecil-williams-31081_berserk_that-s-critical-to-me-the-community-when_2487453.jpg" --- > [That's critical to me, the community. When I was 12 years old, I had a mental breakdown; I went berserk for a long time. I felt rejection from the white community. Couldn't understand why the pigmentation of my skin kept…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-williams/that-s-critical-to-me-the-community-when-i-was-12-years-old-i-had-a/) [Cecil Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7aa/cecil-williams-31081_berserk_that-s-critical-to-me-the-community-when_2487453.jpg) ## More by Cecil Williams > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-williams/when-people-get-up-on-the-stage-and-say-i-ve-got-aids-or-i-m-in/) [Cecil Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-williams/) > [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-williams/i-need-to-be-in-touch-with-the-people-you-ve-got-to-look-in-their/) [Cecil Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-williams/) > [The music certainly plays a major role. You can be free enough to comfort each other, to touch each other, to embrace each other,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-williams/the-music-certainly-plays-a-major-role-you-can-be-free-enough-to/) [Cecil Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-williams/) > [Any racism or barriers that may be put up, you get a tremendous sense of resistance. The more you push me, the greater I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-williams/any-racism-or-barriers-that-may-be-put-up-you-get-a-tremendous-sense/) [Cecil Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-williams/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-williams/i-don-t-go-and-study-other-folks-i-come-from-where-i-came-from-as-a/) [Cecil Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-williams/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-williams/when-the-musician-starts-improvising-he-never-can-go-back-to-what-he/) [Cecil Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-williams/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-williams/i-m-not-interested-in-being-an-intellectual-or-in-being-traditional/) [Cecil Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-williams/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-williams/there-s-great-poetry-in-the-old-testament-and-the-new-testament-and-i/) [Cecil Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-williams/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-williams/i-have-excessive-energy-tremendous-energy-i-have-a-sense-of-people-i/) [Cecil Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-williams/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-williams/death-is-a-reality-but-life-is-a-reality-also-you-got-to-live-at-this/) [Cecil Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-williams/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-williams/i-m-a-folk-preacher-a-folk-therapist-a-folk-musician-i-come-from/) [Cecil Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-williams/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-williams/if-you-got-the-truth-you-put-it-out-there-and-everybody-says-oh-my/) [Cecil Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-williams/) > [I was the fifth child in a family of six, five boys and one girl. Bless that poor girl. We were very poor; it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-williams/i-was-the-fifth-child-in-a-family-of-six-five-boys-and-one-girl-bless/) [Cecil Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-williams/) > [Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic, and presentation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-williams/research-as-the-college-student-will-come-to-know-it-is-relatively/) [Cecil Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-williams/) > [That's critical to me, the community. When I was 12 years old, I had a mental breakdown; I went berserk for a long time.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-williams/that-s-critical-to-me-the-community-when-i-was-12-years-old-i-had-a/) [Cecil Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-williams/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/rejection-white/cecil-williams/#itemlist", "name": "1 Rejection White Quotes By Cecil Williams", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "That's critical to me, the community. When I was 12 years old, I had a mental breakdown; I went berserk for a long time. I felt rejection from the white community. Couldn't understand why the pigmentation of my skin kept me from doing. 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