"I grew up listening and looking up at these people and laughing at Carol Burnett and singing James Taylor songs. And same with Smokey Robinson. So they were such a huge influence as a child that to actually sit alongside them and perform on the same bill was an amazing experience for me."

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Source : "Mc Lyte – Current Goal Is to Educate the Next Generation of Hip-hop Leaders". bellephill.com. August 25, 2016.

MC Lyte

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“The first time I hung out with [David Blaine], he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven and he crawled into the pizza oven and turned the heat on to 400 degrees or something like that, and he stayed in it for I guess a half hour. He came out, and except for one or two second-degree burns, he was unscathed. You meet a lot of musicians and filmmakers and actors, but it's rare to meet someone who can step inside a pizza oven and take the heat. I was intrigued by that.”
“I got my MacBook in the first year at university, and that's really when I stopped playing live instruments and started geeking out on my laptop.”
“Those trees seem to grow every year...”
“If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.”
“The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.”
“We could not take one step in the pursuit of holiness if God in His grace had not first delivered us from the dominion of sin and brought us into union with His risen Son. Salvation is by grace and sanctification is by grace.”
“I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.”
“It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.”

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