10 things Katt Williams said about God, Satan, Kanye West, TD Jakes in epic Shannon Sharp interview

By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Tuesday, January 09, 2024

8. On marriage

Though he has adopted seven children, Williams told Sharpe that he has never felt the urge to get married.

“I'm not against it. Like most people that are not married it’s because they are afraid of commitment. [It’s] not like that for me. It's just the whole time I wanted to be married I had kids, so I had to try to fill my wife's place before she got there. So I already got kids without [the] mother. But now I got to be doing laundry. I'm washing dishes. I'm reading stories, I'm having to nurture. I'm having to do all of this. And I got to the point where I didn't need the wife,” he explained.

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“I'm doing it and we're doing it, and I'm not replacing a woman in their lives. I'm letting them see that, that's just the only thing that we don't have. And it was easier for me to do that because you have to understand that all of the kids I'm raising at this point, they have fathers. They have a mother. I'm a different person, I'm raising. And so that needs to be done with the other, respect for the others that put work in as well. So yeah, I never had a problem getting married.”

9. Advice to children

Williams says he doesn’t try teaching adults but when it comes to children, he tries to share values and wisdom that cannot be bought.

“I don't teach anybody anything that's over 18. I've done the work I was going to do. But as kids, I really just tried to teach the things that can't be bought — your integrity, trying to live your life in a way that you, yourself, could be proud of if you had to look back on it,” he said.

“I didn't do very good at leading by example, but behind the scenes, that's never what I was pushing. They understood that. Because of my stance, there was a certain thing that will come my way. And so accountability and responsibility are part of what you're teaching,” he noted.

“You know, even if you're doing the greatest thing in the world, there's this thing called no good deed goes unpunished. Like there's a real Murphy's Law, like basically raising kids, you're just trying to give them [a] better manual and an outline of how life works than your parents gave you, and so that's how I did it.”