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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.

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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful
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When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.
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When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.
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America is a melting pot of immigrants. So actually, if you took all of the immigrants outside of America, you'd be missing a lot of flavor, starting with the food, with the culture, with the dance, with everything.
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My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.
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Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic
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No matter what I'm goin' through, I could still exist.
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I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.
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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 hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.
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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
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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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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it
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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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My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.
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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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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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I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.
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I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today
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My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.
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