She is best known for her role as Denise Huxtable on the long-running NBC series The Cosby Show, and later in the spinoff series A Different World, which focused on Denise Huxtable's life in college. This year, Bonet accepted a role in the film Angel Heart, where she starred opposite Mickey Rourke. The film was directed by Alan Parker.
Bonet was a graduate of Reseda High School in Reseda, California, and later by Celluloid Actor's Studio in North Hollywood, where she majored in acting. She gave birth to daughter Zoë Isabella, the 1st December 1988. She and her husband Lenny Kravitz separated and eventually split up in 1993. In 1992, Bonet legally changed her name to Lilakoi Moon, although she still uses the name Lisa Bonet as a professional actor.
The 23 July 2007 Bonet gave birth to her second child, Lola Iolani Momo. This is the first of two children with Jason Momoa, who is also an actor known for his role in the television series Baywatch, Stargate Atlantis and now also as a potential in the Conan movie. The 15 December 2008 was Bonet and Momo his second child, a son named Nako-Wolf Manakauapo.
Our collection contains 28 quotes who is written / told by Lisa, under the main topic Women.
"Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino"
"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"
"It's okay to be a freak"
"I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them"
"I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism"
"I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit"
"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"
"My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap"
"Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can"
"Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears"
"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"
"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"
"It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness"
"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're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades"
"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'm part of an important movement that needs to happen"
"I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"My life is art. Its how I express God"
"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"
"What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money"
"The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it"
"Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts"
"I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected"
