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rapper and actor 1971–1996Barack Obama 1158
44th President of the United States of America 1961William Shakespeare 699
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Will You Be There
Dangerous (1991)
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)
On his musical work
Ebony interview (2007)
“This is what you love. This is your obsession, I know what it's like to be different. Embrace it.”
“If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change.”
Source: Song Man in the Mirror
Context: I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change
“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)