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#2143 March 2010
Michael Jackson Speech at Harlem “I remember a long time ago in Indiana, I was not more than about 6-7 yrs old, I had a dream that I want to be a performer, you know an entertainer, umm, I would be sleeping in the night and my mother would wake me up. “Michael, Michael, James Brown is on TV”. I jump out of bed & scream at the screen & every twist every turn every bump every……and there was Jackie Wilson…just on & on unlimited great talent, its very sad to see that these artists are really paying for their… they created so much joy for the world & the system the …millionaire record companies totally .. its not like they always say you know they build a brick house, they spit a lot of money, & bought a lot of cars, & stupid excuses…not compared to what artists make…” “I just need you to know that this is very important what we are fighting for because I am tired really really tired of all the manipulations. I am tired of how the press is manipulating everything …of this situation, they do not tell the truth… they lie.” “They manipulate our history books, the history books are not true, its a lie, the history books are lying, you need to know that, you must know that.” “All the form of popular music from Jazz to Hip-Hop, to Bebop, to Soul you talk about different dances from Catwalk, to Jitterbug, to Charleston, to Break dancing – all these are forms of black dancing…whats more important to giving people a sense of escapism, an escapism meaning entertainment , what would it be without a song without a dance, & joy & laughter, & music these things are very important but if you go to the bookstore down the corner, you will not see one black person on the cover, you’ll see Elvis Presley …(applause)… you’ll see the Rolling Stones…but we’re the real pioneers who started these.” “Otis Blackwell was a prolific phenomenal writer who wrote some of the greatest Elvis Presley songs & this was a black man, he died penniless. I met his daughter today and I’m so honored. It was the same level as meeting the Queen of England.” “All injustice..you got to remember something …the minute I started breaking the all times records record sales, I broke all time records, I broke Elvis’ records, I broke Beatle’s records…the minute I made the all time best selling albums in the history of world records…overnight they call me a freak, they called me a homosexual, they called me a child molester, they said I tried to bleach my skin…they said everything to turn the public against me…this all complete complete conspiracy, you have to know this…” “I know my race, I just look in the mirror I know I’m black …you know the thing is…I love you all…its time for a change and let’s not leave this building & forget what has been said. Put it into your heart put it in your subconscious mind & lets do something about it…You have to. We have to. Its been a long long time coming & a change is got to come, so lets hold our torches high & get the respect we deserve…I love you…I love you…I wanna say …Please don’t put this in ur heart today & forget it tomorrow, we will not have accomplished our purpose. We will not have accomplished our purpose. If that happens this has got to stop, got to stop. Thats why i am here with the best to make sure it stops… I love you folks. ” “Thank you. And remember we all are brothers & sisters no matter what color we are.” ~Michael Jackson London, MJNI Killer Thriller Party 15th June 2002 Michael Jackson Speach "I want to thank all the great, incredible talents (DJ plays "Speechless"). As long as you play the music, I want to dance! I want to thank this guy for a wonderful performance (referring to Ernest Valentino). I thought Bryton McClure was amazing, too. He's a great singer as well. Anyway, I first wanted to say, I really don't like to talk that much. I really don't. I prefer performing than talking. I really want you to know what I say. The tradition of great performers: from Sammy Davis Junior, James Brown, to Jackie Wilson, to Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly. The story is usually the same though. These guys worked really hard, and they're crabbed, for the story ends the same. They are usually broken, torn and usually just sad, because the companies take advantage of them, they really do. And being the artist that I am, at Sony I've generated several billion dollars for Sony, several billon. They really thought that my mind is always on music and dancing. It usually is, but they never thought that this performer - myself - would out think them. So, we can't let them get away with what they're trying to do, because now I'm a free agent. I just owe Sony one more album. It's just a box set, really, with two new songs, which I've written ages ago. Because for every album that I record, I write - literally, I'm telling you the truth - I write at least 120 songs every album I do. So I can do the box set, just giving them any two songs. So I'm leaving Sony, a free agent, owning half of Sony. I own half of Sony's Publishing. I'm leaving them, and they're very angry at me, because I just did good business, you know. So the way they get revenge is to try and destroy my album. But I've always said, you know, art - good art - never dies. Thank you. And Tommy Mottola is a devil! I'm not supposed to say what I'm going to say right now, but I have let you know this. (Points to crowd). Please don't videotape what I am going to say, ok? Turn it off, please. Do it, do it, I don't mind! Tape it! Mariah Carey, after divorcing Tommy, came to me crying. Crying. She was crying so badly I had to hold her. She said to me, "This is an evil man, and Michael, this man follows me." He taps her phones, and he's very, very evil. She doesn't trust him. We have to continue our drive until he is terminated. We can't allow him to do this to great artists, we just can't. I just wanted to let you know, I appreciate everything you've done, you've been amazing. You're so loyal! (Scanning the audience). Diana, everybody, Waldo, all the people here! I love you all. You've been amazing, I love you! But still, but still, I promise you, the best is yet to come!" Michael Jackson Speech Oxford (part) I would therefore like to propose tonight that we install in every home a Children's Universal Bill of Rights, the tenets of which are: 1. The right to be loved without having to earn it 2. The right to be protected, without having to deserve it 3. The right to feel valuable, even if you came into the world with nothing 4. The right to be listened to without having to be interesting 5. The right to be read a bedtime story, without having to compete with the evening news 6. The right to an education without having to dodge bullets at schools 7. The right to be thought of as adorable - (even if you have a face that only a mother could love). Friends, the foundation of all human knowledge, the beginning of human consciousness, must be that each and every one of us is an object of love. Before you know if you have red hair or brown, before you know if you are black or white, before you know of what religion you are a part, you have to know that you are loved. About twelve years ago, when I was just about to start my Bad tour, a little boy came with his parents to visit me at home in California. He was dying of cancer and he told me how much he loved my music and me. His parents told me that he wasn't going to live, that any day he could just go, and I said to him: "Look, I am going to be coming to your town in Kansas to open my tour in three months. I want you to come to the show. I am going to give you this jacket that I wore in one of my videos." His eyes lit up and he said: "You are gonna GIVE it to me?" I said "Yeah, but you have to promise that you will wear it to the show." I was trying to make him hold on. I said: "When you come to the show I want to see you in this jacket and in this glove" and I gave him one of my rhinestone gloves - and I never usually give the rhinestone gloves away. And he was just in heaven. But maybe he was too close to heaven, because when I came to his town, he had already died, and they had buried him in the glove and jacket. He was just 10 years old. God knows, I know, that he tried his best to hold on. But at least when he died, he knew that he was loved, not only by his parents, but even by me, a near stranger, I also loved him. And with all of that love he knew that he didn't come into this world alone, and he certainly didn't leave it alone. If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can he dealt with. Full text: http://www.allmichaeljackson.com/speeches/oxforduni01.html All I wanna say is: They don't really care about us. Skin head, dead head Beat me, hate me Tell me what has become of my life Tell me what has become of my rights Some things in life they just don't wanna see All I wanna say is that |
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