Ornette Coleman Quotes

A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly.

There was great persecution in many places, both by imprisoning, and by breaking up of meetings. At a meeting about seven miles from London, the rude people usually came out of several parishes round about, to abuse Friends, and often beat and bruised them exceedingly. One day they abused about eighty Friends that went to that meeting out of London, tearing their coats and cloaks from off their backs, and throwing them into ditches and ponds; and when they had besmeared them with dirt, they said they looked like witches.

No one wants to get beat up in front of the world.

I got beat up my whole life.

I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.

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.

In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.

There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school.

I hate bullies. I hate them. I'm not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

I used to beat up kids and bite kids and do stuff all the time.

I was different. I got beat up every day.

I was bullied at school. The black girl in Central Falls, Rhode Island, in 1973. There'd be 8 or 10 boys; I would count them as I was running.

Just being gender non-conforming opens you to trouble from strangers. And violence.

I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

When I used to go into bars people would try and fight me. Women would punch me 10 years ago or put cigarettes out on my arm or my face. But it doesn't seem to happen any more. They show us a lot of love.

She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.

I was 'gay-bashed' when I was in school even though, you know, I'm not... I'm a straight guy that just happens to be what I do. So, it's easily relatable to me. It was awful. It's a hard time in a kid's life.

Bullying is a national epidemic.

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

Bullies are just ignorant.

Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.

I get beat up on every project.

My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.