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My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
Actor
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
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Rapper
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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 lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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My parents were Christian.
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I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.
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Respect, my brother, nothing but respect, man.
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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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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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I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.
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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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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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My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason I was raised with a lot of studies.
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I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true I used to try to get the accents.
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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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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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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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I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
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The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.
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