M. Jackson Quotes

Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.

I don't know what happens when people die Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear That I can't sing I can't help listening

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

Catch a boat to England baby, maybe to Spain. Wherever I have gone, wherever I've been and gone, wherever I have gone... The blues are all the same.

It's a bad thing that happens to women, but when you look at that term 'violence against women,' nobody is doing it to them. It just happens to them. Men aren't even a part of it.

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.

A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work

On the floor I am more at ease.

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

It’s not exactly that I can’t stay in one place. It’s that if I’m in one place, I have to rearrange it every four to six months! I have to completely change my room!

When you hear bad things about yourself, just put your energies into something else; it's no good crying about it. Just put it into your music - it'll make you stronger.

There are people that regardless of what it is, if it's something that's stressful, whatever it may be, they don't eat, they lose a lot of weight, a divorce, they get real thin. I'm the opposite.

There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.

The only thing that bothers me is that the girls come up to me and say, "I'm dating your ex-husband." I'm happy that he's dating girls and getting out.

It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.

You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.

That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

Race designation is a political designation.

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.

What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.

You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

Surrender had played out for good with me.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.

Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?

If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.

I want to make it a little inconvenient for everybody to get to me.

It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby the basis of civilisation.

There can be no stewardship without stewards.

Nobody criticizes the 'Mighty Ducks' trilogy and gets away with it. Nobody!

Most people call my style of dress slovenly, I call it extreme casual. If I didn't have a mother and a sister for the times I do have to get dressed, I would be absolutely lost.

The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

People have been asking me if I was going to have kids, and I had puppies instead.

Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed.