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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

The fact that I was black and desirous to do my work, the other kids would call me a coconut, as if I were somehow attempting to be white. The bullying was real: I'd get punched, spat at, terrible things.

I wasn't a fighting kid or a causing-trouble kid. I was just one of those cheeky, crazy kids running around.

Kids hate anyone who is different.

I was something of a problem kid. I was emotional, wild, rebellious at school. I'm very touched by kids who don't have advantages; they are much more interesting than kids who have everything. They have a lot of passion and emotion, such a strong will.

In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.

I was the little kid growing up. I wasn't picked on because, honestly, I was fast, so I could run away from the bullies.

In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.

In school, I would run away whenever there was trouble, as I would get bullied a lot.