Lily Cole Quotes

In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'

Like so many other kids with special needs, I have been bullied. Kids in elementary school made me eat sand, and those same boys would walk behind me, teasing me. Finally I had enough, and I told them to grow up.

When you're a little fat boy in any kind of school, you're just persecuted something awful.

Gingers get a bad rep. They get teased at school. So we should feel sorry for them.

I've had to deal with racism, sexism, rumors, malice, a little bit of everything.

I was teased a lot, growing up, because of my skin tone.

We have all had to deal with cruel remarks from other children, and it has made us stronger as a result. But today every minor slight is analysed to determine whether or not it is racist, sexist, homophobic and so on.

I was called fried eggs and all that at school. Size does matter.

I've always been taunted about my skin.

Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.

People were making fun of redheads before I came along.

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people have something against me. But you know how it is. A lot of people vent themselves by coming to the stadium to yell at me. I hope it's not racism. I tell myself that it's not racism; it's because I'm tough, and I repeat this to myself.

I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.

I was made fun of for being fat from fourth or fifth grade to eighth grade. That was pretty rough.

I was bullied about everything, from the way I looked to the fact that my father had been a dancer.

I was an overweight kid, and I went through a period where, oh my God, they were making cow sounds at me when I walked down the hallway and just humiliating me. Kids can be mean.

The Informe should no longer be the scene used to insult, beat, and criticize on the basis of preconfigured conceptions.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don't even understand.

When I got older, it got harder because when kids get older, they get meaner, so I went through a lot of bullying and people calling me, like, 'zebra' or 'cow,' so it was really hard growing up.

I've been bullied because of the way I've looked growing up.

I was definitely teased and bullied in my junior school.

Seriously, I faced a lot of anti-Semitism playing hockey as a kid. It motivated me to play well and to punch everyone who was anti-Semitic. I was taunted and called names. I'd either beat them with a goal or with my fists.

I get bullied for my size, my weight, and my look constantly. It's something that I'm glad we touched on in WWE. I'm glad we touched on it because it's real: it's something that happens in real life to kids all the time, especially in the age of cyber bullying.

I had this one teacher, and as I got older and translated things he used to say, it was racist and hatred stuff he was saying toward me and my brother.