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People take things too literal in the Bible and it’s totally wrong.

Benjamin Clementine

I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

Lucky Way Writing
I’m from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn’t really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards a lot of them.
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Class Father Running
I think it is all about creating characters, mixing them up with the stars and the light-years, and coming back to Earth, because we’re from this universe. We’re not just New York or London; we’re stars.
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Character Country Earth Stars
I was independent. There was no one there to talk to; I didn’t even want to talk to anyone. I started to write about what I was experiencing, and I had no choice, so I was never scared.
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Anymore Experience Independent Talk Write
I have met a few people, who are so respected in the fashion industry and all around the world, and are still very humble. People who have it all but act like they only just started, it’s beautiful. This is what I want to be.
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Beautiful Fashion Humble
Even if someone thinks there’s a mistake I’ve made on the piano, to me it’s not a mistake; it’s how it’s meant to be.
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Mistake Piano Thinking
We have the real self and the false self, there’s nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.
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Everyone False Nothing Real Self
Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that’s fine, because their fake self is also part of them.
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People Real Self Some
That’s how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.
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Firsts Like Poem Trying Writing
Composing was more difficult than writing things down.
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Difficult Down Things Writing
The experience that I had in Paris I could never have ever again in my life. This is when I grew up as a young man.
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Independent Men Writing
When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it’s because you haven’t had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.
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Character Fake Parent Protect Self
I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It’s amazing how we go to school when we’re so young, read all of these books, just trying to memorize them. When you start to live, you don’t have to memorize anything.
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Book School Understanding
I’m not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.
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Changed Gentrification Prostitute Stop
I felt like I was homeless anyway, so the change in environment wasn’t that much of a big deal. I felt pretty much the same. After six months of living on the streets [in Camden], I started singing, busking.
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Dead Environment Months Singing Six
Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
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Convert Itself Lucky Music

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