Emmanuel Adebayor Quotes

I went through child abuse, and I also went through abuse with dating a couple of boyfriends in high school. I also have gone through a divorce.

It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

I was an abused kid.

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.

I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom have a rough time with my dad being very controlling, which is why I push back whenever I feel like someone is trying to box me in. It makes me run for the hills.

I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

My relationship was always abusive, so I chose to not socialise much. People who knew me knew that what pain I was going through.

I had lived with abuse for many years, but the worst abuse has been at my own hands and the appalling situations I have tolerated.

When you go through abuse - the behavior - what happens is all behavior stems from faulty belief.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

I was badly bullied when I was in the seventh grade - relentlessly, mercilessly - by a group of 12-year-old girls. And it left me with a determination that no matter what, I had to throw my shoulders back, stick out my chin, and project a sense that no one and nothing could hurt me. That turned out to be a life-changing mistake.

I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.

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.

It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled between houses - staying with friends, families from church, and relying on the kindness of teachers and people throughout my community to help me grow up essentially without parents.

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are.

I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.