Ron Finley

Fashion Designer

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Ron Finley is a fashion designer, best known for How to Shop for Shit.

Quick Facts About Ron Finley

Profession: Fashion Designer
Notable works: How to Shop for Shit

About Ron Finley

Ron Finley is a Los Angeles-based fashion designer to professional athletes, collector of original blaxploitation posters, and proponent of urban gardening. He is known for giving a widely-viewed TED talk on guerilla gardening.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Ron Finley

People in my neighborhood are so disconnected from the fresh food supply that kids don't know an eggplant from a sweet potato.…

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Disconnected

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The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.

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Environment

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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…

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Body

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If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live…

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Children

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People need to realize how powerful the transformation of soil can be.

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Change

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I'm an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. I grow my art. I use the garden soil like it's a piece of cloth,…

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Art

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All the attention in the world won't do my dishes.

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Attention

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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…

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Drive thru

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We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta.

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Flip

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We've gotten so far away from our food source. It's been hijacked from us. But if you get soil, plant something in…

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Away

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