Lisa Bonet quotes:

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

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.

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

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

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

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

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

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.

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino."

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Having a mate has given me that feeling of safety.

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

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

I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.

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

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

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

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness

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.

It's okay to be a freak.

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

My life is art. Its how I express God

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.

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.