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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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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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The Wyclef Jean music is eclectic music. Wyclef represents music -eclectic music. I've been doing this music since I was a child, and I said I will refuse for anyone to put me into a box.
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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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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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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 lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.
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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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Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.
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The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.
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I haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.
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In the beginning I had women problems, 'cause you know, I represent for the guys. But I was actin' a fool, whilin' out. I'm not sayin' I don't while out anymore. I'm not gonna lie to you.
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When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.
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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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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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No matter what I'm goin' through, I could still exist.
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I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
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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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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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Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.
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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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If you go in the ring and box and you're angry, you're gonna lose the match.
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Right now I'm trying to help my sister with her school situation, 'cause she's real smart. Besides me, my other brother's a lawyer... my parents stressed education a lot.
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What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.
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