Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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!
Wyclef Jean
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
Actor
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Rapper
Kwadèbouke
Wyclef Jeanelle Jean
Nel Ust Wyclef Jean
Mansions
Excuse
Projects
Went
Come
Mansion
Huts
More quotes by Wyclef Jean
The voice of an Angel, the Heart of a Lamb, the spirit of a Lioness, the presence of a Goddess, love you R.I.P Whitney Houston.
Wyclef Jean
I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.
Wyclef Jean
Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
Wyclef Jean
I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
Wyclef Jean
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.
Wyclef Jean
I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.
Wyclef Jean
What happens is we're all gonna return to dirt, so at the end of the day we're all equal.
Wyclef Jean
Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.
Wyclef Jean
I haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.
Wyclef Jean
Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic
Wyclef Jean
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.
Wyclef Jean
Once we revolutionize the music industry, then we can revolutionize our communities and everything in the world, 'cause what happens is, the communities are listening to the music.
Wyclef Jean
I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.
Wyclef Jean
Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.
Wyclef Jean
I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
Wyclef Jean
The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.
Wyclef Jean
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.
Wyclef Jean
What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.
Wyclef Jean
I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.
Wyclef Jean
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.
Wyclef Jean