“If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change.”
Источник: Song Man in the Mirror
Контексте: I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change
“Beat me, hate me
You can never break me
Will me, thrill me
You can never kill me.”
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)
On musical influences
Ebony interview (2007)
“The way you make me feel,
You really turn me on,
You knock me off my feet,
My lonely days are gone.”
The Way You Make Me Feel
Bad (1987)
Bad (1987)
“Get on the floor and dance with me,
I love the way you shake your thing especially.”
Get on the Floor (co-written with Louis Johnson)
Off the Wall (1979)
“I know my race. I just look in the mirror. I know I'm black.”
Remarks at National Action Network headquarters (9 July 2002)
Also used at his funeral (3 Sep. 2009) invitation. Quoted in "Dead stars and classic art will surround Michael Jackson " in CNN.com/entertainment (03 July 2009) http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/03/michael.jackson.funeral/index.html#cnnSTCOther1
“Lies run sprints but the truth runs marathons.”
Press statement (November 2003); quoted in "Michael Jackson Calls Child Molestation Charges 'Lies'" (8 December 2003) Jet
Вариант: Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.
Childhood
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)
