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Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.

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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

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Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.

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I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

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If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.

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Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.

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With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: December 8th, 1925

Died: May 16th, 1990

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