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以下是摘錄Michael的speech, and who he is in his friends eyes....





# "i'm tired,i'm really really tired of the manipulation..."
"我已經厭倦了被人操縱的感覺。這種壓迫是真實存在的！他們是撒謊者，歷史書也是謊言滿佈。你必須知道，所有的流行音樂，從爵士到搖滾到hip-hop，然後到舞曲，都是黑人創造的！但這都被逼到了史書的角落裡去！你從來沒見過一個黑人出現在它的封面上，你只會看到貓王，看到滾石樂隊，可誰才是真正的先驅呢？"
"the minute i started to break the all-time records in record sales..."
"自從我打破唱片紀錄開始——我打破了貓王的紀錄，我打破了披頭四的紀錄——然後呢？他們叫我畸形人，同性戀者，性騷擾小孩的怪胎！他們說我漂白了自己的皮膚，做一切可做的來詆毀我，這些都是陰謀！當我站在鏡前時看著自己，我知道，我是個黑人！"
"I know my race, I just look in the mirror, I know I'm black!"

# The speech on Grammy's legend award in 1993  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inkwaD2riak&NR=1
"I must confess, it feels good to be thought of as a person, not as a personality, because I don't read all the things written about me. I wasn't aware that the world thought I was so weird and bizarre, but when you grow up as I did in front of 100 million people since the age of five, you're automatically different."

"Today when I create my music I feel like an instrument of nature. I wonder what delight nature must feel when we open our hearts and express our God-given talents. The sound of approval rose across the universe, and the whole world abounds in magic. Wonder fills our hearts, for we have glimpsed, for an instant the playfulness of life. And that's why I love children, and learn so much from being around them. I realise that many of our world's problems today from the inner-city crime to large-scale wars, and terrorism and our overcrowded prisons, are a result of the fact that children have had their childhood stolen from them. The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child's heart, are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world. I really believe that."

"What we need to learn from children isn't childish. Being with them connects us to the deeper wisdom of life which is ever-present and only asks to be lived. They know the way to solutions that lie waiting to be recognised with our own hearts. Today I would like to thank all the children of the world, including the sick and deprived. I am so sensitive to your pain."

# Stevie Wonder
"He had a childlike heart. And that was very very impressive to me.
At the end of the day we're all human beings, and for those who can't see that it is possible for a man who's an adult to have a childlike spirit, it doesn't mean that they're weird, it doesn't mean they're a freak, or whatever ridiculous things that people say. We have all kinds of people in the world.
The most important thing is that your heart is in a good place."

"他有著孩童般的心靈，這讓我印象非常、非常深刻。
我們都是人，到頭來都有結束的一天，
而對於那些無法相信成人也能擁有童心的人來說，這不表示他們與眾不同、是怪胎、
或像其他人任意毀謗的那樣...畢竟這世界有各式各樣的人。
最重要的事，就是保持一顆良善的心。" 

# Kobe Bryan

Kobe強調Jackson是個不可多得的好人，「M.J實在是一個很真的人，沒有太多心機。」

此外Kobe更感謝Jackson對自己的鼓勵，「M.J灌輸我一個概念，就是別擔心和別人不同。」Kobe表示，「當你渴望與眾不同時，周遭的人會帶給你阻力，一切順從心中感受，專注在你想努力的方向就對了。」這個概念成就了如今的Kobe。

最後Kobe更以心中看法來形容流行樂天王，「充滿才華卻又如此真誠，這就是我所瞭解的Michael Jackson。」