"My dad was really good about making sure we were cultured, making sure we were educated, and not just showing us, like, the glitz and glam-like hotel hopping, five star places. I’m a full believer that I should earn everything. I need to go to auditions. I work hard. I do my thing.”

Wait for it. You can’t see him, but you’ll know exactly when Michael performs the moonwalk. Goosebumps. Spectacular shot from the pov of Michael’s world-class drummer, Johnathan Sugarfoot Moffett.

Although Michael was the most famous person under the sun, and even though he paid everyone to work for him, he remained the most modest of all in the studio: “Bruce, thanks for putting up with all my craziness. Please Bruce make sure our cassette [will?) blow everyone away. Thanx.”

“There is no question Michael Jackson was different. The question is why this difference incited such fervent disparagement and abuse. One of the qualities of Jackson is that he refuses to compromise his "difference." He never becomes "normal”. Rather, he is true to himself and flaunts his unique, multi-faceted identity, to the frustration of those who would like him to fit in more predictable boxes. His differences were "impenetrable, uncontainable, and they created enormous anxiety. Please be Black, Michael, or white, or gay or straight, father or mother, father to children, not a child yourself, so we at least know how to direct our liberal (in)tolerance. And try not to confuse all the codes simultaneously."