"Not only do our wives need support, but our children need our deep involvement in their lives. If this period [the early years] ofprimitive needs and primitive caretaking passes without us, it is lost forever. We can be involved in other ways, but never again on this profoundly intimate level."

“That's like asking a cobbler if he's made too many pairs of shoes.”

“My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.”

“Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.”

“To appear well dressed, be skinny and tall.”

“The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.”

Source : "Building A Speech". Book by Sheldon Metcalfe, 1990.

“Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica.”

“I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.”

“It just felt like all the excitement in the world was in the building [at the Democratic convention].”

Source : "MC Lyte’s Current Mission Is To Educate The Next Generation Of Hip-Hop Leaders". Blograma.com Interview, www.blogarama.com. August 23, 2016.