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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that

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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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 want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
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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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On Sundays I give the sermons like my dad used to give. I utilize it as a revolutionary tool, as a thinking tool, as a tool where I can recruit people, DM them, and give them information that I feel that they need going forward.
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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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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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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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The first thing you must learn is to always treat a man and a woman with total respect and honor, 'cause if you do that, the legacy you will leave behind will be work.
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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 haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.
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It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, 'cause there's another whole dimension of 'Clef that you wasn't expecting to hear.
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It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.
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I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.
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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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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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The reason why we're warriors is that we rise to the occasion anyone that's felt like the system put them down, and then they rose to the occasion, they're a warrior. It's not about whether you come from the hood or you come from the suburbs, you know what I mean? It's about reality and life.
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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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Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic
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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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The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.
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