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… — Cecil Williams Aids 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… — Cecil Williams Believe 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… — Cecil Williams Abandonment 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… — Cecil Williams Barriers 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… — Cecil Williams Black 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… — Cecil Williams Being yourself 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… — Cecil Williams Atheist 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… — Cecil Williams Care 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… — Cecil Williams Afraid of death 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… — Cecil Williams Death 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… — Cecil Williams Folk music 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… — Cecil Williams God Copy Share Image
I was the fifth child in a family of six, five boys and one girl. Bless that poor girl. We were very… — Cecil Williams Black Copy Share Image
Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic,… — Cecil Williams College Copy Share Image
That's critical to me, the community. When I was 12 years old, I had a mental breakdown; I went berserk for a… — Cecil Williams Berserk Copy Share Image
I am noticing that we're getting more and more people - and I don't know how to handle this - who come… — Cecil Williams Children Copy Share Image
