Lillian Smith may refer to:
- Lillian Smith (author) (1897-1966), American author Strange Fruit 1944
- Lillian Smith Book Award
- Lillian Smith (entertainer) (1871-1930), American trick shooter with Buffalo Bill
- Lillian Rita Smith (1912–1993) New Zealand communist
Famous quotes by lillian smith:
“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. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.”
—Lillian Smith (1897–1966)
“The warped, distorted frame we have put around every Negro child from birth is around every white child also. Each is on a different side of the frame but each is pinioned there. And ... what cruelly shapes and cripples the personality of one is as cruelly shaping and crippling the personality of the other.”
—Lillian Smith (1897–1966)