David Bailey Quotes

He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.

My father used to beat me with his belt...while it was still on him.

My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.

Since I was probably eight years old, just about everyday, all the way until I was 14 or 15 years old, just about everyday my mom and my stepdad would roll around in the living room fighting.

I don't want to get punched all my life.

In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development.

My father used to take off his belt and give me a crack. And I'm all right.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time.

I punched my mother out once.

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That's probably why it's so scary, because they scared me.

Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.

I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It's the bully who's insecure.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.

I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons and I got quite bored. My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling.

My only memories of school are of being beaten, of being hit in the playground, of masters poking their fingers in my chest all day.

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch.