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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
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When you're talkin' about a great man, you're not talking more than one person. It's not about how many people are followin' you, it's about the fact that you're a great man, that's all it's about.
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No matter what I'm goin' through, I could still exist.
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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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What I picked up on Michael Jackson - because I study people when I watch them - the way that he counts his rhythm with his feet and his neck at the same time is crazy... so he's hearing multiple things at once. And I don't know anybody who does that.
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I haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.
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It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?
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Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.
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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that
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People often associate raves with drugs, but for me raves are more associated with self-expression.
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I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.
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Ever since I was a little kid, there used to be the Carnival that used to pass.
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I come from a hut, from a hut I went to the projects, from the projects I went to a mansion so you out there you have ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE!
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What happens is we're all gonna return to dirt, so at the end of the day we're all equal.
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Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.
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Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?
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That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.
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I was looking for Quincy Jones, that's who I was obsessed with. Watching Mike [Jackson], I always knew that I had to be a showman on stage, because when people come to you live you always want them to come back. You gotta give them something to remember.
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Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.
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For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.
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