William Cotton may refer to:
- William Cotton (artist) (1880–1958), American artist and playwright
- William Cotton (MP for Newport, Isle of Wight), see Newport (Isle of Wight) (UK Parliament constituency)
- William Cotton (Archdeacon of Totnes) (fl. 1621), Anglican priest
- William Cotton (bishop) (died 1621), Bishop of Exeter, 1598–1621
- William Cotton (banker) (1786–1866), Governor of the Bank of England, 1842–1845
- William Cotton (missionary) (1813–1879), Anglican priest and beekeeper
- William F. Cotton (1897–2006), central Louisiana businessman
- William Francis Cotton (died 1917)
- William R. Cotton, American meteorologist
- Sir William Cotton (Lord Mayor) (1822–1902), British politician, Lord Mayor of London, Member of Parliament for City of London 1874–1885
- Will Cotton (born 1965), American painter
- Bill Cotton (1928–2008), British television producer
- Billy Cotton (1899–1969), bandleader, father of the above
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Roses do blush and hang their heads,”
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“The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn’t need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder—in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)