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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.

Wyclef Jean

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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
Actor
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Rapper
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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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I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.
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America is a melting pot of immigrants. So actually, if you took all of the immigrants outside of America, you'd be missing a lot of flavor, starting with the food, with the culture, with the dance, with everything.
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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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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 I picked up on Michael Jackson - because I study people when I watch them - the way that he counts his rhythm with his feet and his neck at the same time is crazy... so he's hearing multiple things at once. And I don't know anybody who does that.
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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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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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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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I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
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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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I'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot.
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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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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've never really [written] something that was inspired.
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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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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.
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I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today
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My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.
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