Suzanne Vega 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.

I like the idea of being able to fight my way out of something.

I've never been in a street fight.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

People try to challenge me in bars every now and then. As long as they're not physical I just walk away, but if they get physical then I just end up in a fight.

Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.

I'm not a good talker, I'm a good fighter.

I grew up in a neighbourhood where there was a lot of fighting. It's what boys did during school, during recess, after school. And I was a fairly large kid. So everyone wanted to see if they could take me on.

My first boxing experience came at around 14. There was always confrontation in the area I grew up in. My mentality, I'll be honest, was if someone tries it with me, I want to be able to knock them out.

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.

I grew up on the street, and I found a way to vent my frustrations through fighting.

Fighting is what I do.

Fighting was a problem for me in high school.

Guys get hurt in fights. It doesn't mean you stop a fight every time somebody gets hurt.

Forward, always moving forward, from the time I can remember - a kid. I was short, and the big guys would take advantage; I had to turn myself into a body puncher. By that time I was in reform school, they'd have a boxing match every week; they'd bring guys in from outside to fight me.

I've been in many street fights. I fought street fights for my friends to protect them.

I was tough at a very young age, where I was just fighting all the time.

The older kids, if they wanted something from you, whether it was cash or sports equipment, they would just take it. My older brothers used to say, 'If someone tries to take something from you, never give it to them.' So we fought all the time.

Fighting is not something that I enjoy doing. It's something that I do that I feel that I have to do.

No one wants to get their ass beat to a soundtrack.

My last fight was more than 20 years ago. I'm not a fighter, I'm a lover. If somebody's going to speak bad about me, I will walk away. But if a guy like Steven Seagal slaps me once, I will slap him twice as hard. Life is full of violence.

The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me as a tough kid, except for the kids I beat up.

I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get nailed to a cross or any other place.

All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can.

I've done a lot of fighting in my time, and I'm down to do some more. I don't want to, but you know, there's just certain things that you can't sit down and take.