#suburbia

I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#classic #different #different sense #else #grew

The lawn is the last suburban frontier. It separates us from the corruption of the street and its triker gangs. When drive-by shootings occur, our grass gets a shower instead of our windows getting water-stains. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #gangs #humor #lawns #shootings

Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#home #paradise #spirituality #state-of-being #suburbia

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#could #court #ghetto #guided #heart