Carolina Quotes
Oh, storytelling is crucial to the future of our country. We cannot cover up history. We have to find out who we were, where we came from, how we lived, and what we believed, before we can understand what’s happening now.
Lee Smith Carolinian
Source
"Southern Storyteller: An Interview with Author Lee Smith," Garden & Gun, August/September 2018
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- interview
- work
- Southern Storyteller
- year
- 2018
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