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I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.
Lisa Bonet
2.
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
Lisa Bonet
3.
We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.
Lisa Bonet
4.
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.
Lisa Bonet
5.
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.
Lisa Bonet
6.
I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.
Lisa Bonet
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It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.
Lisa Bonet
8.
I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.
Lisa Bonet
9.
Its from the deep waters that we come.
And we are heartfelt and treacherous like those waters.
We come with an unflinching devotion to the mystical and to God - representing life and embracing death.
Lisa Bonet
10.
My life is art. Its how I express God.
Lisa Bonet
11.
I'm learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain.
Lisa Bonet
12.
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.
Lisa Bonet
13.
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.
Lisa Bonet
14.
It's okay to be a freak.
Lisa Bonet
15.
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.
Lisa Bonet
16.
Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears.
Lisa Bonet
17.
What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.
Lisa Bonet
18.
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.
Lisa Bonet
19.
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.
Lisa Bonet
20.
My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap.
Lisa Bonet
21.
Having a mate has given me that feeling of safety.
Lisa Bonet
22.
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.
Lisa Bonet
23.
I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.
Lisa Bonet
24.
Theres not a lot out there, and what is out there has to be really interesting to make me want to leave my life, which is really precious to me.
Lisa Bonet
25.
I'm a shy person. I don't know if it's in my DNA to share with the world.
Lisa Bonet
26.
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.
Lisa Bonet
27.
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.
Lisa Bonet
28.
Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can.
Lisa Bonet
29.
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.
Lisa Bonet
30.
I was obsessed with the Olympics. It's so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.
Lisa Bonet