Lillian Smith
Lillian Smith
Lillian Eugenia Smithwas a writer and social critic of the Southern United States, known most prominently for her best-selling novel Strange Fruit. A white woman who openly embraced controversial positions on matters of race and gender equality, she was a southern liberal unafraid to criticize segregation and work toward the dismantling of Jim Crow laws, at a time when such actions virtually guaranteed social ostracism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 December 1897
CountryUnited States of America
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: It is the only way we can leave the future open.
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.