“I had to do something, and what I wanted to do was kill people,” Williams told the crowd. Much of “Black and White” deals with Richard Williams’s life pre-Venus and Serena, especially his childhood, in Shreveport, Louisiana, a Ku Klux Klan stronghold, where, in addition to the railroad-spike incident, Williams said he was hit over the head with a baseball bat, a bottle, and a flashlight. “If I sit too long, I might fall,” he said, opting to stand rather than perch on a stool at the front of the room.
Before his daughters left for Paris this week to compete in the French Open, Williams, who wore a striped polo buttoned at the neck and Nike sneakers with the laces untied, was in town to give a talk to the Hudson Union Society about his new memoir, “Black and White: The Way I See It.” He walks with a limp, the result of a childhood fight in which he was stabbed with a railroad spike, and sits with a hunch, the result of having recently turned seventy-two.
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