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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
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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.
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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'm not going away fast I've been around for a while, and plan to be around for a while more.
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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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My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.
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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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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that
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The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.
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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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