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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
If I’m being forced to do something I don’t want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I’m aware of it, no matter what happens, I’m always going to have a fake self and I’m not going to judge my fake self.
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Judging Matter Real Self Something
People take things too literal in the Bible and it’s totally wrong.
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Literally People Totally Wrong
When I started writing again, especially when I listened to French music and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, I realized that these lots talked about themselves. The greatest artists, they didn’t sing; they only spoke.
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Artist Listen Writing
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
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 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
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 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
There’s a part in every person that has a fake self. We’ve had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.
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Fake Parent Self Upbring
When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life, I was being myself, I was telling people what was happening.
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Being Myself People Singing
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
Happiness is overrated and money can’t justify it.
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Happiness Justify Money Overrated
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
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

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