Quotes by Lisa Bonet

• A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.
• Having Zoe saved my life. It was my wake-up call. There were so many things I didn't want to pass on to her.
• The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it.
• We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.
• When I was 16 I was fortunate enough to get Cosby and move to New York and shift my whole life. that had been my dream all along, and it came true.
• I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.
• I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.
• We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.
• Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears.
• Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.
• An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.
• I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.
• Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts.
• I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.
• What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.
• It's okay to be a freak.
• That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice.
• Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can.
• My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap.
• It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.
• My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.
• I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.
• I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.
• I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
• I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.
• Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.
• My life is art. Its how I express God.