Lisa Bonet

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.

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

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.