#want

I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't. ↗

— LaToya Jackson

#because #client #could #family #get

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#everything #god #hands #his #make

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#check #christmas #feeling #locate #me

Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives! ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#because #churches #dare #enough #i

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#cried #dark #everyday #face #father

Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#charming #child #cute #every #forever

They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#belittle #did #end #even #hurting

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#child #could #create #everything #had

I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#because #car #crying #did #everything

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#childhood #direct #directing #i #know