Wyclef Jean Quotes
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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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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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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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My parents were Christian.
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I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.
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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 think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.
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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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You might see a female, and she triggers something, or you see an old lady walking down the street, she triggers something. You go to Africa, you see the vibes, that triggers something.
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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
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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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People often associate raves with drugs, but for me raves are more associated with self-expression.
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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
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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 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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Ever since I was a little kid, there used to be the Carnival that used to pass.
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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 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 want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
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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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The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.
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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 the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.