Lisa Bonet Quotes
"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
(Related: Life, Want)
"The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Life, Past, Years)
"We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Girlfriends, World)
"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."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Life, Dream)
"I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Time, Feeling)
"I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Corporate, Energy, 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."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: People, American, Talk, Talking, Tradition)
"Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears."
- Lisa Bonet
"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
(Related: Love, Religion, God, Bible, Connection, Parents)
"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
(Related: Being, Body, Mind)
"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
(Related: Art, Beauty, Love, Building, Career, Desire, Film)
"Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Boys, Day, Talk)
"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
(Related: Film, Media, Now, Writing)
"What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Money, Beauty, Soul, Corruption, Loss, Youth)
"It's okay to be a freak."
- Lisa Bonet
"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
(Related: Love, Daughter, People, Choice)
"Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Privacy)
"My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Business, Desire)
"It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: 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."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Family, Marriage, Mother, Man, Woman)
"I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Needs)
"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
(Related: Time)
"I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Music, Work, Youth)
"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
(Related: Family, Moments, Racism, Sheep)
"I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: God, 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."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Success, People, Quiet, Self)
"My life is art. Its how I express God."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Life, Art, God)