Quote by Lisa Bonet
A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. Weve tri

A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. Weve 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. – Lisa Bonet

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Were getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends – were renegades. – Lisa Bonet

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Women
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Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I dont know. But its natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion. – Lisa Bonet

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Religion
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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. – Lisa Bonet

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Money is a kind of poetry. – Wallace Stevens

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Poetry

A poets work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. – Salman Rushdie

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Poetry

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. – Henry R. Luce

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Poetry

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. – Seamus Heaney

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Poetry

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