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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.

Wyclef Jean

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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
Actor
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Human Rights Activist
Musician
Rapper
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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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I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
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You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.
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When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.
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I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
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Respect, my brother, nothing but respect, man.
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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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I haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.
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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
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My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today
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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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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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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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I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.
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For me, before I go on stage, it all depends. Might be a girl, might be an edible, might be a verse, might be somebody mixing something in my drink without me knowing - hopefully that won't happen tonight.
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The Wyclef Jean music is eclectic music. Wyclef represents music -eclectic music. I've been doing this music since I was a child, and I said I will refuse for anyone to put me into a box.
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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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