“If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”

— Michael Jackson , book Dancing the Dream

Dancing the Dream (1992), also used in his funeral invitation. Quoted in "Dead stars and classic art will surround Michael Jackson" in CNN.com/entertainment (3 July 2009) http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/03/michael.jackson.funeral/index.html#cnnSTCOther1

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American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958–2009

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