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If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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I'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot.
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When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.
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There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that
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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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When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.
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Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.
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What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.
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I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character I just love people and want to see people having a good time.
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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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No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.
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I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
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I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
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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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I've been communicating with the Fugees, and it feels a lot better now than it did three or four years ago.
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I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.
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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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