"I want to thank Michael for opening up so many doors for African
Americans to be on daytime shows, late night shows. He allowed
Kobe [Bryant] and I to have our jerseys in people's homes across
the world, because he was already there."
"This is a moment that I wish that I didn't live to see come.
"But as much as I can say that and mean it, I do know that God
is good and I do know that as much as we may feel -
and we do - that we need Michael here with us,
God must have needed him far more."
"Michael was one of a kind. Whenever we were out together and
there would be a picture taken, there would be caption of some
kind, and the caption usually said something like, 'an odd couple'
or 'an unlikely pair.'
"But to us it was the most natural and easiest of friendships.
I was 13 when we met, and from that day on our friendship grew.
Michael always knew he could count on me to support him or be
his date.
แต่สำหรับเรา มันเป็นสิ่งที่ธรรมชาติ แต่ง่ายดายที่สุด ในการที่จะเป็นเพื่อนกับ
ไมเคิล ตอนนั้น ฉันอายุ 13 ตอนที่เราเจอกันครั้งแรก และจากวันนั้น มิตรภาพ
ของเราก็เติบโตขึ้น.. ไมเคิลรู้เสมอว่าเขาสามารถไว้ใจฉัน ให้คอยช่วยเหลือเขา
หรือแม้กระทั่ง to be his date !!! (แปลว่าไรดี)
"We had a bond. Maybe it was because we both understood what
it was like to be in the spotlight from a very, very young age.
Both of us needed to be adults very early, but when we were
together, we were two little kids having fun."
และนี่คือจากหนังสือ Little Prince ที่เธออ่านให้ MJ
"What moves me so deeply, about this sleeping prince...is his loyalty
to a flower--the image of a rose shining within him like a flame within
a lamp, even when he's asleep. And I realized he was even more
fragile than I had thought. Lamps must be protected. A gust of wind
can blow them out."
"it was Michael Jackson that brought blacks
and whites and Asians and Latinos together.
Michael made us love each other.
"I want his three children to know, there wasn't nothing strange
about your daddy. It was strange what your daddy had to deal
with. He dealt with it anyway. He dealt with it for us."
Michael, when you left us, a part of me went with you. ...
I will treasure the good times, singing, dancing, laughing. ...
We will never understand what he endured ... being judged, ridiculed.
How much pain can one take?
"I'm lost for words. I was his voice and his backbone.
I had his back and so did the family. We thank you.
That's all I can say, we thank you very much."
"I just wanted to say, ever since I was born,
Daddy has been the best father you can ever imagine.
And I just wanted to say I love him so much."
PARIS JACKSON, 11, DAUGHTER
จนถึงตอนนี้นั่งสะอื้น หยุดไม่อยู่ ไปเรียบร้อยแล้วครับ ตั้งแต่ Marlone บอกว่า Paris have something to say
จนถึงวันนี้ยังใจหายอยู่เลย จำได้ว่าตอนนั้นพยายามขนาดไหนที่จะร้องเพลง Heal the world เสียดายแค่ไหนที่ไม่ได้ไปดู concert ประวัติศาสตร์
มีบางช่วงที่ลืมเค้าไป ผมลืมเค้าไปได้อย่างน่าตกใจ จนมาเห็นแถลงข่าว This is it หัวใจก็พองกลับมาอีกครั้ง ว่าอยากเห็นเค้าขึ้นไปที่ๆ ของเค้าอีกครั้ง....บนเวที