black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.

Benjamin Clementine

When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

Judging Media People
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.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

Firsts Like Poem Trying Writing
Confidence came from people. I think I’m very confident in me, as a human being.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

Human People Thinking
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.”
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

Facts People Race
We’re all competent in different ways, we’ve just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

Competent Different Ourselves Way
[My music] is opposite to fashion.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

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

Building Country Facts
William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn’t quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

Favorite Musician Poet Sound
Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

Convert Itself Lucky Music
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.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

Book School Understanding
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.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

Dead Environment Months Singing Six
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.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

Character Fake Parent Protect 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.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

Fake Growing Self Up
Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that’s fine, because their fake self is also part of them.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

People Real Self Some
Happiness is overrated and money can’t justify it.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

Happiness Justify Money Overrated
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.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

Lines Literature Way

When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Benjamin Clementine Quotes