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When you're talkin' about a great man, you're not talking more than one person. It's not about how many people are followin' you, it's about the fact that you're a great man, that's all it's about.

Wyclef Jean

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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.
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No matter what I'm goin' through, I could still exist.
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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 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 do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.
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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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Respect, my brother, nothing but respect, man.
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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'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today
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I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.
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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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People often associate raves with drugs, but for me raves are more associated with self-expression.
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It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, 'cause there's another whole dimension of 'Clef that you wasn't expecting to hear.
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For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.
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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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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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On Sundays I give the sermons like my dad used to give. I utilize it as a revolutionary tool, as a thinking tool, as a tool where I can recruit people, DM them, and give them information that I feel that they need going forward.
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I was looking for Quincy Jones, that's who I was obsessed with. Watching Mike [Jackson], I always knew that I had to be a showman on stage, because when people come to you live you always want them to come back. You gotta give them something to remember.
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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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The first thing you must learn is to always treat a man and a woman with total respect and honor, 'cause if you do that, the legacy you will leave behind will be work.
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