Quote of the Day

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“It's ridiculous, man! Chemical peels and all of it. And I don't understand it. But he obviously didn't want to be black.”

- Longtime Jackson friend Quincy Jones, on Michael changing his appearance, to Details magazine

Posted: Jul 2, 2009 at 12:00 pm / Email this »

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altoids4every1 says – reply to this

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disease my ass! he was black then white, he wanted to be the same color as all the little boys he touched, how can we just forget that he was a pedophile? I dont give a shit that hes dead, good thing actually
cawleen says – reply to this

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Let MJ make his own decisions. It's like sex change when you don't feel like you're the right gender. But not a lot of people even considered that he felt as if he wasn't meant to be black. It was his choice, Quincy leave it.
danzigirl says – reply to this

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Re: altoids4every1 – you are a fucking pig
Lisa Sange says – reply to this

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Very disappointing Quincy…. didnt anyone ever teach you to keep ur comments to yourself? now this is going to start a whole uproar about whether or not mike really had a skin disease. GOOD JOB!
hotasurban says – reply to this

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Quincy Jones should have been the one to pass, not MJ.

Everyone hates this man, and he wasn't a friend to Michael.. he was a fucking business associate.

Michael did not want to be white, and who cares if he did?!?!?! It's his body. He had a disease, which caused his skin to blotch and lighten. In my opinion, he simply accepted his disease and did something about it (bleached his skin). Who the F wants to have super blotchy skin? I think it was a smart move for Michael.

Problem is, everyone is so frightened of people who are not main stream, who are different, therefore we start hating on them. Michael was a good person, a talented person, who in my opinion did so much for everyone in this world. If you don't like him it's because of your closed minded-ness.

PEACE and ACCEPTANCE are all that matter. We should all learn that.
PerezTheBlogNazi says – reply to this

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Re: altoids4every1 – Did your RETARD parent's tell you that?
LäggNer says – reply to this

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Some of these comments about Jones hating his race because he married a white woman really piss me off. He married someone he loved, who just happened to be white. Not everything has to be about race, and there's no reason why you should limit yourself to only dating people with the same skin tone as yours, that's just ridiculous. People come in all colors and shapes! It's a good thing! Embrace it!
sheba088 says – reply to this

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Oh, so this is the reason he is not going to the funeral! There is a name for people like that! I just lost some respect for him.
sheba088 says – reply to this

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I see the race card is being played. No one wants to be born a black person.
Well that can be said of other faiths too! Be care how you express yourself troll! Lesson 101 never assume what people want to be born as. Just look at you.
aimee88 says – reply to this

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He said on many ocassions that he has vitiligo, people just choose not to believe him because of the way the media liked to portray him. He did have the disease and I know someone who also suffers from it. It starts out little patches, which MJ fixed with makeup but then eventually there was more white than black. The man I know who has it was just like this.. he still has a few patches of his old skin colour on his arms but the rest of him is snow white. You can bleach those patches to make the skin an even colour but MJ never deliberately tried to make himself white. I'm sick of this shit with people believing nothing he said.
sheba088 says – reply to this

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Re: PunkyBrewstein – Not cool troll! I have friends that are of color. Not cool at all. Look what they did to your faith! And, I have lot's of people of your faith as friends. I don't think they would care for you. You could have used a different word like black or of color but you really wanted to use the whole word. Bitch! Let's keep it real.
sheba088 says – reply to this

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Re: sheba088 – Be careful how you express words. I've seen this troll a lot and all they talk about is hate. Why? If you don't like MJ post get the hell off of it! Did you get a nose job too? Hey, just askin.. Now that's how stupid this troll post was. Some people are never born or die way too soon. What an arse!
superduperyo says – reply to this

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fuck you Quincy Jones!
Elle086 says – reply to this

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I find it interesting that Quincy Jones made these comments yet he considered MJ to be his friend/little brother. Unfortuantely, Michael Jackson is no longer here to defend himself, and if anything we all know that he experienced significant trauma from his childhood that may have led to his image issues and strange behavior as an adult.But Mr. Jones show some respect, like you said in the article you are a musician/producer not a psychiatrist so how about you make comments about MJ's music not his personal life.
LexiSmexi says – reply to this

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I still can't believe people doubt MJ had vitiligo.
miumiu09 says – reply to this

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"longtime Jackson friend" ? i can see that.
sheba088 says – reply to this

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It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
You're paralyzed

You hear the door slam and realize there's nowhere left to run
You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see the sun
You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination, girl!
But all the while you hear the creature creeping up behind
You're out of time

They're out to get you, there's demons closing in on every side
They will possess you unless you change that number on your dial
Now is the time for you and I to cuddle close together, yeah
All through the night I'll save you from the terror on the screen
I'll make you see

(I'm gonna thrill ya tonight)
Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y'alls neighborhood

I'm gonna thrill ya tonight, ooh baby
I'm gonna thrill ya tonight, oh darlin'
Thriller night, baby, ooh!

The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom

And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller
JontavionBrownXIV says – reply to this

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I like how Quincy is always so open and honest…
moongirl415 says – reply to this

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he had vitiligo (skin cancer) that is why he balanced out his pigmentation. people are so quick to criticize.
CAPSLOCK says – reply to this

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Am I the only one who believes that he wanted to look like Peter Pan? The boy that didn't want to grow up and lived on Neverland was white as far as I know. MJ did a great job, even the nose is cartoon like.
megizhott10 says – reply to this

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If someone as close to him as Quincy was skeptical as to if he had the disesae or not, it should speak volumes…..

But of course, this gets turned into a "let's bash Quincy for marrying a white woman", something that has nothing to do woth one bleaching their skin but apparently a bunch of you have a problem with, hence bringing it up
dgayle64 says – reply to this

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I love Quincey, just as your balloon is about to float beyond
reach, along comes Quincy!! He is honest, he is solid and
I respect him so much. Of course, he's right, Michael wanted
to be white (God knows why). I'm white, Lord how I wanted
to look like Diana Ross. I saw her close up once, no picture
can really capture her beauty, like Liz Taylor. Michael was
probably the most loved and adored star in the world, no
matter what he did. He was colorless! I am a child of the
50's. If you want to give the Kennedy's, Sharpton, Jackson
credit for race relations today, go ahead. I know better. It
was Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Michael, Elvis.
I cannot go on. They made it cool to be black, Nat King Cole,
Nancy Wilson. I can't quit!! God, please give Michael a break,
we loved him so much, so much joy he gave me and when
Quincy Jones gets there God, try to be cool about it, it will not
be easy because he is one of your best works!!!!
jazzyblues says – reply to this

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Quincy can't talk against any black person being self-loathing. Talk about yourself first and why you hate being black. Quincy is the king of being a self-loathing black man. All he wants is a white woman. Give me a break, Quincy! STFU!
jazzyblues says – reply to this

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I believe it was both. Michael had vitiligo. And, he also bleached his skin, and did chemical peels to even out his skin. I do also believe, Michael did everything in his power to not look like father.
Passion27 says – reply to this

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It is sad that we have lost such a great musician, however after reading the Details Article- I don't think Quincy said anything out of wrong- it might have been bad timing but I feel his honesty (Quincy has been around very long !!!! and he knows and fully understands the ins and outs of this business!!!!). I fully support his statement about getting over the child tramuma situation or at least dealing with it. It didn't seem like Micheal wanted to deal with a lot of things are even face the reality. At some point u have to grow up !!!!!!! and that is what makes me sad he never grew up and never enjoyed the latter part of his years. 50 is a good time to be swing!!!!!!!!! now he is gone and left this debree of mess behind the children are all over the place - how the hell will Diana or his mother take care of them. I think he was shelfish for leaving them like this!!!!!!!!!! very shelfish!!!!! he could have lived for those children a bit More !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Purrr, I am so cute says – reply to this

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I agree with Maxey Love!!! Quincy must be mad he was left out of will.
nonerasable says – reply to this

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Who are we to judge? Let him be who he wants to be.
indian says – reply to this

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are white people trying to be black they go on vacations just to lay in the sun their so desperate to be dark it is one of the most profitable business all the sray tans and talk about surgery check out some of you white people u even buy asseslook at kim kardashina she didnt have that but as a teenager >so shut the fuck up the man is dead leave the dead alone i hope somone else kicks your ass i like lady gagai seen her at glatonbury and she looks like a ugly man in the face
indian says – reply to this

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i have worked for michael for twenty something years quincy jones hasnt been michaels good friend in years he quit talking to michael years ago as a close friend he was mad because michael didnt have him do his alblums again research > half of the people saying theywere his good friend are not reverend sharpton was not his good friendhe came along when michael was mad at tommy mottola he stepped in with his racist shit and michael was sick they let him leave in peace he was a great man ouit riting all this shit for once leave him alone your playing with fire u needto grow the fuck up u might not be as lucky next time when someone hits you u r making alot of people angry i use to like u but now you r getting carried away
Japles says – reply to this

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Almost all of the black people in my city are lazy, drug dealing, welfare suckers. Also, the blacks around here still wear picks in their hair. Maybe they didn't get the memo that it went out in the 70's. I highly doubt that many of them pick up the newspaper or read the internet. The only thing I've heard of monkey's knowing how to do is use tools….such as the crack pipe.
RayRay28 says – reply to this

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Obviously Quincy Jones knew MJ was doing SOMETHING to get his skin white.
PerezTheBlogNazi says – reply to this

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Re: Japles – Yeah why you pale faced bastards get tans, get your chicken lips enlarged, and get your asses augumentated when YOU think you are better than blacks?? It's fucking hilarious seeing some of the snide ass coments you fucking Peckerwoods make. You all act like you're better than everyone else yet you mother fucker's wanna take the man of color's features…..Pathetic Bigot Piece of shit's.
PerezTheBlogNazi says – reply to this

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Re: JontavionBrownXIV – You're a VERY strange man. You think fucking redneck hunter Sarah Pailin is hot.
Japles says – reply to this

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Re: PerezTheBlogNazi – No one I associate with wants to live in the ghetto with grease in my hair, stinking of cocoa butter while buying chicken wings and waiting for the city bus.
nikkiluv123 says – reply to this

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wait, i thought mj had vitiligo? i'm so confused!
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Pig_Face_mario says – reply to this

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But a pedophile and child molester was ok to be.Sick fuck.
Mysterious says – reply to this

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regardless if this quote was tacking out of context ..it is not APPROPIATE…Michael is dead…RESPECT him
tick_tock_tick_tock says – reply to this

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didnt he rape like ten kids? i mean i feel bad he's dead but he also ruined these boys lives
siiiiick says – reply to this

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1. vitiligo. in interviews about it he seemed quite upset about the condition. he kept saying "i don't understand, i don't understand" but he knew it was hereditary and that it came from his fathers side. there are heaps of photos where you can see his patchy skin, especially on his stomach from kind of around the thriller period when there weren't as many products with overly great coverage to hide his condition.
2. he still identified as black. there are quite a few interviews on youtube where he referred to himself without hesitation as a black man, especially in the 2000's. I think with age he really regretted changing his nose, but I guess he was desperate for his features to match his changing skin colour.
VictorVictor says – reply to this

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Re: tick_tock_tick_tock – No he didn't. Get you facts before writing BS.
thisangel says – reply to this

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I think it is a bit rude of him to only come out and say this now and not have the guts to before but hey, he knew michael better than any of us. I have seen black people with vitiligo before but only small patches on their arms. I just looked it up on 'google images' and was shocked at how it can cover the entire body and make a black person look white or so white that they would probably wish to even out their skin tone somehow and become totally white. There are also some pictures of michael where you can see his skin has this look about it. Poor guy.
SerenityFair says – reply to this

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So freaking what if he changed his looks over and over…his father told him how ugly he was his whole life. He was psychologically damged..a tortured soul…I wouldn't have called this the quote of the day. Quincy is an ass.
RIP Michael.
old men are gross says – reply to this

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Free to be, you and me!
bunnythesaint says – reply to this

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Re: mandapotpie –
My mom swears to this comment. That's what she's told me all along, but I really think that he didn't want to see his father in himself, imo.
merboii says – reply to this

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uh, wow, it's called having a disease called vitiligo, you idiot.
Daphpeachy88 says – reply to this

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First of all Michael Jackson had a skin disease, which my cousin has the same thing. Michael wanted to even out his skin for God sakes which is understandable. The press was just making the matter out to be bad