Marcus Smart Quotes

People come up to me, they want to fight me. I've faced a lot of people come up to me and saying racist things, hateful things, aggressive things.

Things got so bad that when I went shopping for a house, some people would refuse to open the door if they saw it was me standing there. And drunks would always want to challenge me.

I'm accustomed to being harassed.

I was brutally bullied in school. I had short hair and buck teeth and kids would call out to me in the most nasty ways possible.

I was warming up with a couple of team-mates. We were all coloured and there were monkey chants. There were about 10 of them doing it. I didn't know what to do. It had never happened to me before. I told my coach and he went mad.

I had this one teacher, and as I got older and translated things he used to say, it was racist and hatred stuff he was saying toward me and my brother.

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

I've always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life.

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.

Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.

If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

I was bullied a lot as a kid.

These good Christians do not have the courage to face me. They follow my children around and shout at them, "Your father is a mass murderer" and other terrible epithets.

If they are laughing at you, how can they bludgeon you to death?

They - you know, when we walked in - when I walked in with the two white men that had carried me down - and they cursed me all the way down. They would ask me questions, and when I would try to answer, they would tell me to hush.

Unfortunately, I'm used to the insults.

The Informe should no longer be the scene used to insult, beat, and criticize on the basis of preconfigured conceptions.

I was bullied in high school because I looked different.

Bullying happens at all ages and levels.

Places like Wrexham and Southport, when there are not that many people there, were tough. You are a young lad, and you're having abuse hurled at you.

I've had to deal with racism, sexism, rumors, malice, a little bit of everything.

I experienced bullying in different forms.