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I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
Actor
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
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Rapper
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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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No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.
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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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My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.
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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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My parents were Christian.
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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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I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.
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There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
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My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
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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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I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
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I haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.
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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
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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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I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.
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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!
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I always look outside.
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