Lisa Bonet Quotes

“We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.”

— Lisa Bonet

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

Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears.

— Lisa Bonet

What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.

— Lisa Bonet

“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

“I'm a shy person. I don't know if it's in my DNA to share with the world.”

— Lisa Bonet

My life is art. Its how I express God.

— Lisa Bonet

“It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.”

— Lisa Bonet

“It's okay to be a freak.”

— Lisa Bonet

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

“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

“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

“Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can.”

— Lisa Bonet

“I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.”

— Lisa Bonet

“Having a mate has given me that feeling of safety.”

— Lisa Bonet

“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

“I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.”

— Lisa Bonet

“I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.”

— Lisa Bonet

“I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.”

— Lisa Bonet

“My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap.”

— 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

“I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.”

— Lisa Bonet

“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

“I was obsessed with the Olympics. It's so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.”

— Lisa Bonet

“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

“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

“The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it.”

— Lisa Bonet

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“I'm learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain.”

— Lisa Bonet

“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