"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
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Strength
More From 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."
- "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."
More In Strength
- "Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart."― Steven Cojocaru
- "To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas."― Philip Kaufman
- "It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength."― Michel de Montaigne