Jay-Z

I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.

American Musician

Samira Wiley

You have people who are so passionate and touched by my work, which is so humbling. But other times, it's a little overwhelming. If I'm just trying to go to the bodega and get some coconut water, I have to put on a hat and some glasses - those kind of things.

American Actress

Cory Booker

I live in a working-class community that is struggling at the poverty line, where people who work full-time jobs still at my corner bodega use food stamps. Do you think they care what the stock market's doing today or what the GDP number is? No.

American Politician

Daymond John

Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your community for the last 20 years, that person is working just as much as the individual who's running General Mills.

American Businessman

Marlon Wayans

I got caught stealing when I was a kid from the local bodega right across the street from where we lived. I tried to steal a big bag of Red Hot Dollars. And I swear, I was about 7 years old and the bag was bigger'n me.

American Actor

Colson Whitehead

For me, the terror of the zombie is that at any moment, your friend, your family, you neighbor, your teacher, the guy at the bodega down the street, can be revealed as the monster they've always been.

American Novelist

Aquaria

When I go down to the bodega and grab a BLT, I throw on my sweatpants and sweatshirt.

American

A bodega often serves as a neighborhood hub where locals and visitors interact.

Cultural Hub

Bodegas are known for being convenient and opened longer hours than a regular grocery store.

Convenience

Bodegas are smaller and have a more limited selection than supermarkets.

Not a Supermarket

Bodegas in wine-producing regions are popular tourist destinations for wine tastings and tours.

Tourism Attraction

Bodegas can be landmarks with historical architecture and centuries-old winemaking traditions.

Historical Significance

Some bodegas specialize in certain types of wine, like cava or sherry.

Variety Specialization

The Catalan bodega jug is a traditional item and can be a souvenir or decoration.

Catalan Tradition

Bodega jugs are synonym with rustic and traditional decor in Catalan culture.

Rustic Aesthetic

 a local school, a small bodega, and is there some kind of synergy between those things? Can you get those folk talking? I've found that in cases where neighborhoods have failed, they still often have a pulse. How do you identify the pulse in that place, the passionate people,

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 white from bodega that just crossed the road there's lots of deck around and probably spot him in a second not with the lights of course if he stops we are going to go into infrared please Louise