【正文】 f hope, struggling to bee a man in a world that saw my father as subordinate. i was the first black artist to be played on mtv and i remember how big a deal it was even then. and that was in the 80s!
　　my father moved to indiana and had a large family of his own, working long hours in the steel mills, work that kills the lungs and humbles the spirit, all to support his family. is it any wonder that he found it difficult to expose his feelings? is it any mystery that he hardened his heart, that he raised the emotional ramparts? and most of all, is it any wonder why he pushed his sons so hard to succeed as performers, so that they could be saved from what he knew to be a life of indignity and poverty?
　　i have begun to see that even my fatheramp。m asking all of us to do tonight. live up to the fifth of the ten mandments. honor your parents by not judging them. give them the benefit of the doubt.
　　that is why i want to forgive my father and to stop judging him. i want to forgive my father, because i want a father, and this is the only one that iamp。the weak can never forgive. forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.amp。ll all be so much happier as a result.
　　and so ladies and gentlemen, i conclude my remarks tonight with faith, joy and excitement.
　　from this day forward, may a new song be heard.
　　let that new song be the sound of children laughing.
　　let that new song be the sound of children playing.
　　let that new song be the sound of children singing.
　　and let that new song be the sound of parents listening.
　　together, let us create a symphony of hearts, marveling at the miracle of our children and basking in the beauty of love.
　　let us heal the world and blight its pain.
　　and may we all make beautiful music together.
　　god bless you, and i love you.
。 my friends, we are that world, we are those children.
　　mahatma gandhi said: amp。s what iamp。t understand it or know how to deal with it. but he did know doughnuts.
　　and when i allow the floodgates to open up, there are other memories that e rushing back, memories of other tiny gestures, however imperfect, that showed that he did what he could. so tonight, rather than focusing on what my father didnamp。 we all did. my favorite food was glazed doughnuts and my father knew that. so every few weeks i would e downstairs in the morning and there on the kitchen counter was a bag of glazed doughnuts amp。
　　i hope that they will always focus on the positive things, on the sacrifices i willingly made for them, and not criticize the things they had to give up, or the errors iamp。s how kids are, the little things mean so much to them and for me, that one moment meant everything. i only experienced it that one time, but it made me feel really good, about him and the world.
　　but now i am a father myself, and one day i was thinking about my own children, prince and paris and how i wanted them to think of me when they grow up. to be sure, i would like them to remember how i always wanted them with me wherever i went, how i always tried to put them before everything else. but there are also challenges in their lives. because my kids are stalked by paparazzi, they canamp。 beginning with all of us here tonight amp。t want any of us to make this mistake. thatamp。 a mix of wolf and retriever. not only wasnamp。re not really home, because their heads are still at the office. and their kids? well, their kids just make do with whatever emotional crumbs they get. and you donamp。 six youths under the age of 20 will mit suicide, 12 children under the age of 20 will die from firearms amp。 and i never usually give the rhinestone gloves away. and he was just in heaven.
　　but maybe he was too close to heaven, because when i came to his town, he had already died, and they had buried him in the glove and jacket. he was just 10 years old. god knows, i know, that he tried his best to hold on. but at least when he died, he knew that he was loved, not only by his parents, but even by me, a near stranger, i also loved him. and with all of that love he knew that he didnamp。yeah, but you have to promise that you will wear it to the show.amp。look, i am going to be ing to your town in kansas to open my tour in three months. i want you to e to the show. i am going to give you this jacket that i wore in one of my videos.amp。. and while we americans and british might dispute the