“This is what you love. This is your obsession, I know what it's like to be different. Embrace it.”
Recommended quotes
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“I know my race. I just look in the mirror. I know I'm black.”
Remarks at National Action Network headquarters (9 July 2002)
“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)
“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)
“She got me workin' day and night,
And I've been workin'
From sun-up to midnight.”
Off the Wall (1979)
On musical influences
Ebony interview (2007)
“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)
“Your butt is mine
Gonna tell you right
Just show your face
In broad daylight”
Bad (1987)
“I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.”
“I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.”
Handwritten note published in People (12 October 1987)
"The Dance" - from inlay sleeve of Dangerous (1991)