Michael Jackson's speech

The Grammy Legend Awards 1993

.I don't read all the things written about me
.I wasn't aware  that the world thought i was so weird and bizarre
But when you grew up as i did in front of one hundred million people since the age of five, you're automatically different.
the last few weeks, i have  been cleansing myself and it's been a rebirth for myself. it's like a cleansing spirit.
my childhood was comletely taken away from me.
there was no christmas, there was no birthdays, it was not a normal childhood. no normal pleasures of childhood. those were exchanged for hard work and struggle and pain and eventual material and professional success. but as an awful price,  i can not recreate that part of my life. nor would i change any   part of my life. however today, when i create my  music i feel like an instrument of  nature.
i wonder what delight nature must feel when we open our hearts and express our god-given talents. the sound of approval rose across the universe in the whole world abounds and magic. wonder fill our hearts what we have glimpsed for an instant the playfullness of life. and that's why i love children and learn so much from being around them. i realized that many of our world's problems today from the ier-city crime to large-scale wars and terrorism and our overcrowded prisons are results of the fact that children have had their childhood stolen from them. the magic. the wonder the mistery and the iocence of a child's heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world. i really believe that. what we need to learn from children isn't childish. being with them coects us to the deeper wisdom of life. which is ever-present and only has to be lived they know the wat to solutions that lie waiting to be recognized within our own hearts.
tday i would like to thank all the children of the world including the sick and deprived. i am so sensitive to your pain. i also want to thank all those who have helped me to chael my talent here on earth.