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“South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.”
— Ron FinleyRon Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA
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“Gardening is the most therapeutic and defiant act you can do, especially in the inner city. Plus, you get strawberries.”
— Ron FinleyRon Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA
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“If kids grow kale, kids eat kale. If they grow tomatoes, they eat tomatoes. But when none of this is presented to them, if they're not shown how food affects the mind and the body, they blindly eat whatever you put in front of them.”
— Ron FinleyRon Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA
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“We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is — if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta.”
— Ron FinleyRon Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA
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