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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.
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.
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At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.
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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that
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My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
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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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I was looking for Quincy Jones, that's who I was obsessed with. Watching Mike [Jackson], I always knew that I had to be a showman on stage, because when people come to you live you always want them to come back. You gotta give them something to remember.
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I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
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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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I come from a hut, from a hut I went to the projects, from the projects I went to a mansion so you out there you have ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE!
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I always look outside.
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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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Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?
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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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When you're talkin' about a great man, you're not talking more than one person. It's not about how many people are followin' you, it's about the fact that you're a great man, that's all it's about.
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