My funky padlet by Paisley Borland -28 https://padlet.com/pborland28/4rlm01bmhyikcfg4 en-us 2025-05-13 15:49:17 UTC 2025-05-21 19:22:38 UTC hello@padlet.com "'Momma said folks brought food all day yesterday. They were still bringing it when I got here last night. Seems like the whole neighborhood stopped by.' 'That's the Garden for you,' Momma says. 'If folks can't do anything else, they'll cook.'" (Thomas 61). aodwyer28 https://padlet.com/pborland28/4rlm01bmhyikcfg4/wish/3448829922 2025-05-13 16:06:27 UTC https://padlet.com/pborland28/4rlm01bmhyikcfg4/wish/3448829922 "Girls wear their hair colored, curled, laid, and slayed. Got me feeling basic as hell with my ponytail. Guys in their freshest kicks and sagging pants grind so close to girls they just about need condoms." (Thomas 4). aodwyer28 https://padlet.com/pborland28/4rlm01bmhyikcfg4/wish/3448835620 2025-05-13 16:10:23 UTC https://padlet.com/pborland28/4rlm01bmhyikcfg4/wish/3448835620 "'We talking 'bout raising some money. Think you can help us out, Maverick?' 'Oh yeah. Let me know what y'all need, and it's done.'" (Thomas 41). aodwyer28 https://padlet.com/pborland28/4rlm01bmhyikcfg4/wish/3448837818 2025-05-13 16:11:59 UTC https://padlet.com/pborland28/4rlm01bmhyikcfg4/wish/3448837818 "'All the way? Bruh, all what way? Down the street?' Garden Heights Starr is all up in my voice right now" (Thomas 161). aodwyer28 https://padlet.com/pborland28/4rlm01bmhyikcfg4/wish/3452756066 2025-05-15 15:43:13 UTC https://padlet.com/pborland28/4rlm01bmhyikcfg4/wish/3452756066 "It's weird talking to them about Garden Heights. We never do. I'm always afraid one of them will call it 'the ghetto.'... I can call Garden Heights the ghetto all I want. Nobody else can" (Thomas 139). aodwyer28 https://padlet.com/pborland28/4rlm01bmhyikcfg4/wish/3452759608 2025-05-15 15:46:19 UTC https://padlet.com/pborland28/4rlm01bmhyikcfg4/wish/3452759608 "'That's why people are speaking out, huh? Because it wont change if we don't say something.' 'Exactly. We can't be silent.'" (Thomas 171). vs "'They're protesting for Khalil?' 'Yeah,' Hailey says, all giddy and shit. 'Perfect timing too. I did not study got that English exam.'" (Thomas 183). aodwyer28 https://padlet.com/pborland28/4rlm01bmhyikcfg4/wish/3452774574 The difference between why people are protesting in Garden Heights vs Williamson.

]]> 2025-05-15 15:59:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pborland28/4rlm01bmhyikcfg4/wish/3452774574 "I let her have her way a lot. Still do. That's part of being Williamson Starr, I guess." (Thomas 75). aodwyer28 https://padlet.com/pborland28/4rlm01bmhyikcfg4/wish/3457639199 2025-05-19 17:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/pborland28/4rlm01bmhyikcfg4/wish/3457639199 "And bam. That normal feeling? Gone. I suddenly remember how different I am from most of the kids here." (Thomas 76). aodwyer28 https://padlet.com/pborland28/4rlm01bmhyikcfg4/wish/3457642283 2025-05-19 17:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/pborland28/4rlm01bmhyikcfg4/wish/3457642283 "The drug dealer. That's how they see him. It doesn't matter that he's suspected of doing it. "Drug Dealer" is louder than "suspected" ever will be" (Thomas 113). pborland28 https://padlet.com/pborland28/4rlm01bmhyikcfg4/wish/3457653942 2025-05-19 17:18:46 UTC https://padlet.com/pborland28/4rlm01bmhyikcfg4/wish/3457653942 "People around here don't have much, but they help each other out as best they can. It's this strange, dysfunctional-as-hell family, but it's still a family." (Thomas 329). aodwyer28 https://padlet.com/pborland28/4rlm01bmhyikcfg4/wish/3461664743 2025-05-21 17:46:07 UTC https://padlet.com/pborland28/4rlm01bmhyikcfg4/wish/3461664743