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My parents were Christian.

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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
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If you go in the ring and box and you're angry, you're gonna lose the match.
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When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.
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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.
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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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Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.
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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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I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work
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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.
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Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.
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When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.
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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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Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.
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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'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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Respect, my brother, nothing but respect, man.
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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 do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.
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