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I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.

I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.

I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

My mom broke the mold. She put my brother and I first, always, and worked her fingers to the bone trying to provide for us. She taught us right from wrong and gave us very strong morals and values and belief in family, things that have stayed with me.

I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out of it.

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.