I was very tiny…I spent most of my time stuffed into lockers. Thank god for cell phones, or I’d still be there

Usually the bullies are the most insecure. I was bullied and it’s hard, you feel like high schools never going to be over. Its four years of your life and you just have to remember the person picking on you has their own problems and their own issues. And you’re going to be ok.

I grew up in Tennessee, and if you didn’t play football, you were a sissy. I got slurs all the time because I was in music and art…I was an outcast in a lot of ways…but everything that you get picked on for or you feel makes you weird is essentially what’s going to make you sexy as an adult

I changed schools a lot when I was in elementary school because some girls were mean. They were less mean in middle school, because I was doing all right; although this one girl gave me invitations to hand out to her birthday party that I wasn’t invited to

Of course I was bullied and of course I was called names – my last name is Weir. That’s very, very close to ‘weird,’ or ‘queer’ and any of those words. But I’ve never been anyone to cry over spilled milk or be upset because kids don’t like me, or people don’t like me… It makes my skin stronger and thicker. And why cry? Your mascara runs

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‘Who do you think you are?

I have insecurities of course, but I don’t hang out with anyone who points them out to me

I haven’t personally experienced bullying, but when I was in high school, I had a best friend who became a bully. I took a stand and took it upon myself to separate from her. I couldn’t be associated with her because it wasn’t the type of person I wanted to be.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me

To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear

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

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet

One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.

Step up so others won’t get stepped on.

Keep in mind
To be kind
Cos bullying’s mean
And not to be seen.