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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
Actor
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Rapper
Kwadèbouke
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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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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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A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
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Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.
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I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.
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The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.
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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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What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.
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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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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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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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You might see a female, and she triggers something, or you see an old lady walking down the street, she triggers something. You go to Africa, you see the vibes, that triggers something.
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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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I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.
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