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I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist.

Lauryn Hill

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Lauryn Hill
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: May 26
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