Lillian E. Smith
Born
in Jasper, Florida, The United States
December 12, 1897
Died
September 28, 1966
Genre
Strange Fruit
79 editions
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published
1944
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Killers of the Dream
24 editions
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1949
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Memory of a Large Christmas
8 editions
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1980
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One Hour (Chapel Hill Books)
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6 editions
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published
1959
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The Journey
11 editions
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published
1954
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The Winner Names the Age: A Collection of Writings
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Now Is the Time
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6 editions
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2004
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Our faces, our words
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The Vampire and I
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2014
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The Choosing
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2014
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“When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new question, then it is time to die”
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“The human heart dares not stay away from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.”
― Killers of the Dream
― Killers of the Dream
“Those faces on Main Street shaded by wide straw hats are surrounded in my child-memory by hardware and ploughs, seed bags and bales of cotton, the smell of guano and mule lots, hot sun on sidewalks and lovely white ladies with sweet childlike voices and smooth childlike faces, and Old gardens of boxwood and camellias, and fields endlessly curving around my small world. I know now that the bitterness, the cruel sensual lips, the quick fears in hard eyes, the sashshaying buttocks of brown girls, the thin childish voices of white women, had a great deal to do with high interest at the bank and low wages in the mills and gullied fields and lynchings and Ku Klux Klan and segregation and sacred womanhood and revivals, and Prohibition. And that no part of this memory can be understood without recalling it all of it.”
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