"I was literally the black sheep of the……" — 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."
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30 Quotes by Lisa Bonet
Lisa Bonet has 30 quotes on this site.
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Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can.
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I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.
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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…
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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…
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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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Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a…
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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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That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise…
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Theres not a lot out there, and what is out there has to be really interesting to make me want…
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My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the 60s. When…
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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…
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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…
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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
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