I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it’s quite small and contained.

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I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it’s quite small and contained.

Benjamin Clementine

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Building Facts

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 Race
Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
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Convert Itself Lucky
Happiness is overrated and money can’t justify it.
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Justify Overrated
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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Fake Parent Protect Self
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
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
I loved English literature – if didn’t it would have been hard – but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasis on certain lines.
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Lines Way
Confidence came from people. I think I’m very confident in me, as a human being.
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People take things too literal in the Bible and it’s totally wrong.
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Literally Totally
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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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 Rebellious
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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Months Singing Six
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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Running
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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Real Self Some
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

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