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" 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. "

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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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" I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good time. "

" I'm most comfortable when you just give me a guitar and I just sing. "

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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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" All that violence in the world, we need to stop that. "

" As a producer, I always want to know what makes the kids tick. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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" I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it! "

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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. "

" It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful. "

" Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change. "

" Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic. "

" When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song. Pras did not affect me because, in the realm of politics, he has never stood up for anything. "

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Song

" I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people. "

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

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

" I'm like a hippie. At the end of the day, that's what my voice caters to. "

" 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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Head

" I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

" 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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Rights

" My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies. "