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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.

Benjamin Clementine

The real self is who you are when you’re at home, when you’re comfortable, and the false self is what you’re pretending – and the reason you pretend is because you want to create a character for the surroundings you’re within.
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Character Home Real Reason Surround
In fact, I might be confident for the human race because of what the human race has given me. When I was in the street and bars, people always came up to me and said, “Don’t stop, keep going.”
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Facts People Race
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
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
Composing was more difficult than writing things down.
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Difficult Down Things Writing
I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians – they would ask us, “What’s the shortest verse in the Bible?” and I was the one who always said “John 11:35” straightaway. It stayed with me, the Bible has stayed with me.
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Christian Family Rebellious
I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it’s quite small and contained.
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Building Country Facts
If you’ve got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you’re going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you are.
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Fake Growing Self Up
Happiness is overrated and money can’t justify it.
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Happiness Justify Money Overrated
You can’t judge people by their cover.
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Cover Judging People
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
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
I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.
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Lucky Way Writing
We’re all competent in different ways, we’ve just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.
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Competent Different Ourselves Way
Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
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Convert Itself Lucky Music
Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.
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Appreciate Believe Life Live

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