Gwendolyn Brooks Quote

She had a tremendous impatience with other people's ideas — unless those happened to be exactly like hers; even then, often as not, she gave a hurried, almost angry, affirmative, and flew on to emphatic illuminations of her own.


Maud Martha (1953)


She had a tremendous impatience with other people's ideas — unless those happened to be exactly like hers; even then, often as not, she gave a...

She had a tremendous impatience with other people's ideas — unless those happened to be exactly like hers; even then, often as not, she gave a...

She had a tremendous impatience with other people's ideas — unless those happened to be exactly like hers; even then, often as not, she gave a...

She had a tremendous impatience with other people's ideas — unless those happened to be exactly like hers; even then, often as not, she gave a...