Quotes by : Jeff Hobbs

Unbeknownst to me, from the beginning of freshman year Rob and Oswaldo had been drawn away from Yale....

At Yale, most everyone (except Oswaldo Gutierrez) refrained from telling Rob what to do, because of the....

The men her girlfriends dated were too often angry and muttering about oppression. One of the reasons....

Oswaldo was flummoxed by the fact that his friend could be so quiet, almost embarrassed, about his academic....

But words mattered, more so in Newark than many other places. In a world where income and possessions....

He was known to hit low, drive upward from the hips, and flip other boys over his shoulder and onto their....

The student body, too, felt more diverse. Rob spoke often of "real people" with his friends, by which....

...he wondered how a person as bright and deserving as Rob Peace could have made the choices, beginning....

In East Orange, initiations were completed by murdering someone, for no other reason than to prove to....

The word "fronting" was important to Rob. A coward who acted tough was fronting. A nerd who acted dumb....