Jeff Hobbs

Quotes

• “The men her girlfriends dated were too often angry and muttering about oppression. One of the reasons she took to Skeet ...”
• “Her son seemed to be belatedly rebelling against all his celebrated accomplishments- as well as the responsibilities inh...”
• “Unbeknownst to me, from the beginning of freshman year Rob and Oswaldo had been drawn away from Yale via their friends o...”
• “At Yale, most everyone (except Oswaldo Gutierrez) refrained from telling Rob what to do, because of the way he'd grown u...”
• “Oswaldo was flummoxed by the fact that his friend could be so quiet, almost embarrassed, about his academic acumen, yet ...”
• “The word "fronting" was important to Rob. A coward who acted tough was fronting. A nerd who acted dumb was fronting. A r...”
• “In East Orange, initiations were completed by murdering someone, for no other reason than to prove to a tremendously col...”
• “But words mattered, more so in Newark than many other places. In a world where income and possessions were limited, word...”