Mustafa Ali Quotes

I remember dealing with bullies in high school and being put down because I was different.

Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

I was made fun of by a lot of other kids in such a way that I didn't feel like I was human.

People would beat me up after school; they would throw names at me. Children are brutal... Being different when you're a child is always a challenge.

I was taunted because I was different.

We had a severely autistic kid in my class, and I was always picked last in gym class, even after him. Naturally, that made me feel pretty bad as an eight-year-old.

I was teased a lot, growing up, because of my skin tone.

We have all had to deal with cruel remarks from other children, and it has made us stronger as a result. But today every minor slight is analysed to determine whether or not it is racist, sexist, homophobic and so on.

I know how hard it is to be bullied about a part of yourself that you can't change, or just because of who you are. It can turn you into an angry and bitter person.

I was bullied because I have this thick Nigerian accent.

I was this eggheady kid, the one who was consistently beaten up and picked last for the baseball teams.

I was skinny and black and didn't play sports. And I was bullied.

I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.

I was different and people made fun of me.

Like so many other kids with special needs, I have been bullied. Kids in elementary school made me eat sand, and those same boys would walk behind me, teasing me. Finally I had enough, and I told them to grow up.

When you're a little fat boy in any kind of school, you're just persecuted something awful.

When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.

When I was younger, I definitely did face anti-ginger prejudice. As a child, all teasing hurts, whether it's because you're fat or a different race or have red hair. I had enough comments from a couple of people to make it a sore point.

I got picked on a lot as a kid.

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

I was bullied about everything, from the way I looked to the fact that my father had been a dancer.

Growing up, at that time, I didn't want to be black because I was bullied, and I'd tell my mum that I wanted to be white like everyone else at school.