Zora Hurston and the Strange Case of Ruby McCollum Quotes

“I had no prospects of a job. In fact, I had no prospect of any income at all since Nunn had evidently reneged on our agreement and sent me only a paltry sum to travel back home. But I have never been one to give up hope, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of unemployment. I”
― C. Arthur Ellis Jr, Zora Hurston and the Strange Case of Ruby McCollum

“In a flash, I comprehended the infinitude of the human mind, mother of monsters and angels, and the ineffable glory and unspeakable horror of its creations. What I beheld in Ruby’s eyes during her silence, when the agony of her memories robbed her of speech, may God have the mercy never to let me see again. When”
― C. Arthur Ellis Jr, Zora Hurston and the Strange Case of Ruby McCollum

“Langston Hughes, who wrote, “That Justice is a blind goddess/Is a thing to which we black are wise:/Her bandage hides two festering sores/That once perhaps were eyes.” As”
― C. Arthur Ellis Jr, Zora Hurston and the Strange Case of Ruby McCollum

“The footsteps of hatred incarnate clothed in white, the color of innocence, marching along the streets of Live Oak.”
― C. Arthur Ellis Jr, Zora Hurston and the Strange Case of Ruby McCollum