Lisa Bonet Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Lisa Bonet Quotes and Sayings
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears.
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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.
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I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.
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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.
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I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.
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I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.
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I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
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I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.
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I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.
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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.
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It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.
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It's okay to be a freak.
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Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can.
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My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap.
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My life is art. Its how I express God.
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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.
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Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts.
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Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.
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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.
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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.
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The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it.
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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.
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We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.
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What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.
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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.
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