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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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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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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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My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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Respect, my brother, nothing but respect, man.
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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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Michael Jackson was my musical God. He made me believe that all things are possible, and through real and positive music. He can live forever! I love Michael Jackson. God Bless him.
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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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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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I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.
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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 do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.
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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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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 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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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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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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I've known Clinton for probably the last year that he was in office and stuff. The vibe that I always got from Clinton was, you-know, he never gave me a president-vibe.
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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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