Speaking ahead of next week's release of his new book, Richard Williams tells the Associated Press that his daughter urged him to write it. "I released the book because Serena kept telling me to," Williams told the AP. "She thought it would help a lot of people."

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Williams' freshly penned memoir, “Black and White: The Way I see it,” which is co-written with Bart Davis, is set to hit bookstores on May 6. In it, Richard Williams describes a family life held together by the principles that matter most: courage, confidence, commitment, faith, and above all, love.

“When you’re younger, as a female, you flock to your father,” Serena Williams said. “When you get older, you’re closer to your mother. I still feel really, really close to my father. . . . We have a great relationship. There is an appreciation. There is a closeness because of what we’ve been through together, and a respect.”

The 292-page book reportedly reads as part autobiography, part parenting guide and part self-help manual. Williams, who grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana before moving to Chicago, shares stories about the poverty and violence and racism he experienced in his formative years, as well as what it was like training the greatest pair of tennis-playing siblings to ever grace a tennis court.

Williams also goes into detail about the incident that he and his daughters suffered through in 2001 at Indian Wells. They have not returned to the event since then, and Williams says he doesn't plan to. "I would never go back," he said, but he continued to say that his daughters could decide on their own about whether or not they want to ever play there again.

Read more about the book here.