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“I think my image gets distorted in the public’s mind. They don’t get a clear or full picture of what I’m like, despite the press coverage I mentioned early. Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told. The part that doesn’t get printed is often the part that would make the printed part less sensational by shedding light on the facts.”
― Michael Jackson, Moonwalk: Michael Jackson’s Only Official Autobiography

“Multiple truths do exist, and you do not have to be the sum of your traumas.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“It’s been my dream since I was a child to somehow unite people of the world through love and music.”
― Michael Jackson, Moonwalk: Michael Jackson’s Only Official Autobiography

“that the re-subordination of those emancipated was only natural considering the power structures in which this freedom was and continues to operate within. Rendering the Black body as a species body, encouraging a Blackness which is defined as abject, threatening, servile, dangerous, dependent, irrational and infectious, finding yourself being constrained in a way you did not ask for, in a way which could not possibly contain all that you are, all that you could be, could want to be.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water