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" Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks. "

Wyclef Jean

Influence

Cool

Growing Up

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People

" 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. "

" Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music. "

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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? "

" 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. "

" 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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Country

Rights

" Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important. "

" I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive. "

" I really have fans that are from 14 or 15 years old to 60. "

" There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible. "

" I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time. "

" 'Masquerade' is the autobiography of Wyclef Jean. A lot of people know me through my work with Carlos Santana or Destiny's Child, winning all those Grammy Awards, but you do not know what is going on inside me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island. "

" What I learned from people like Carlos Santana is that you cannot get too happy after working for five years in the industry. It takes years and years, and I learned to keep a straight head and keep on working harder and harder. "

" When I was 11 years old, I started playing guitar. "

" My parents were Christian. "

" My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it. "

" With Yele Haiti, the first thing was I'm proud of the organization and the work that the organization has done, and in the future hope to continue doing. "