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I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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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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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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No matter what I'm goin' through, I could still exist.
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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 think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true I used to try to get the accents.
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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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You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.
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If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.
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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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The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.
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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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I like Bergen County because it's nice and quiet. It's beautiful, and I can get to the city way quick.
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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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The reason why we love America so much is America is the only place you can actually come in and wave your flag.
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