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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?

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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Keep in mind: true revolution is only seven people, right?
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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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There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
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For me, before I go on stage, it all depends. Might be a girl, might be an edible, might be a verse, might be somebody mixing something in my drink without me knowing - hopefully that won't happen tonight.
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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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What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is 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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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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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'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
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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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If you go in the ring and box and you're angry, you're gonna lose the match.
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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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Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic
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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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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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People often associate raves with drugs, but for me raves are more associated with self-expression.
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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 hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.
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