Barbara Deming Quotes

Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye.

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.

All the kids at school would bully me and always wanted me to fight them. I never did, but if I wanted to, I totally could.

When a bully pulls your hair, you punch him in the face.

The neighbor's kid was bullying my kid. Crossing the line. Threatening him all the time. I went over there to tell him what was going on. I had on flip-flops. I wasn't there to fight. It was a misunderstanding between a couple of dudes where one thing led to another.

I cannot remember a time when I was not getting into fights.

It's the bullies who are afraid, are the ones that do all the fighting. It's not the secure kids that get out there and fight. It's the insecure kids.

Kids aren't born to be bullies, they're taught to be bullies.

Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.

I do not like violence.

A lot of times, you had to beat the bullies at their own game. But the difficulty is not becoming the bully yourself.

I ain't never liked violence.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

I don't like violence.

Fights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt.

The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.

It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.

I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

I love to hit people. I love to.

I have a problem with bullying.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.