Lillian Smith Quotes
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
Citations
Smith, Lillian. The Journey. World Publishing Company, 1954.
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Lillian Eugenia Smith was a writer and social critic of the Southern United States, known most prominently for her best-selling novel Strange Fruit (1944). 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.