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Oswaldo Gutierrez is a talented Yale student who hails from a similar socioeconomic background as Robert Peace, but disapproves of Robert’s drug dealing, which he feels only confirms offensive stereotypes about minorities in America. Gutierrez clearly admires Robert, but he also finds Robert frustrating, lazy, and, in a word, “so fucking stupid.”
Oswaldo Gutierrez Quotes in The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
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Chapter 11
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Oswaldo's advice was the same that, a few years ago, he himself had refused to hear from others: "Get the fuck out of Newark. Get the fuck away from people who won't get the fuck out of Newark."
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Chapter 15
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And Rob left, rolling his eyes like this scene was just part of a comedy in which he was the focal point of the farcical behavior of those around him. And Oswaldo understood now with a clarity he'd never had before that all of Rob's troubles were self-inflicted—that on Yale graduation day Rob had stood within reach of everything he now didn't have.
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Oswaldo Gutierrez Quotes in The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
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Chapter 11
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Oswaldo's advice was the same that, a few years ago, he himself had refused to hear from others: "Get the fuck out of Newark. Get the fuck away from people who won't get the fuck out of Newark."
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Chapter 15
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And Rob left, rolling his eyes like this scene was just part of a comedy in which he was the focal point of the farcical behavior of those around him. And Oswaldo understood now with a clarity he'd never had before that all of Rob's troubles were self-inflicted—that on Yale graduation day Rob had stood within reach of everything he now didn't have.
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