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Maya Angelou Stamp Includes Quote That Isn't Hers
AOL News ^ | Apr 7th 2015 | Staff

Posted on 04/07/2015 5:22:10 PM PDT by IncPen

Maya Angelou was known for her inspirational and thought-provoking quotes, so it's only fitting that a stamp commemorating her features one. A new postage stamp that was unveiled in a dedication ceremony Tuesday morning celebrating the late literary icon aimed to do just that. It features her image with the quote, "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." Except that quote ... isn't Angelou's.

(Excerpt) Read more at aol.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: angelou; blackkk; joanwalshanglund; mayaangelou; mayaangelouquote; mayaangeloustamp; obama; plagiarism; plagiarist; stamp; usps; yuk
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To: IncPen

It’s probably for the best — her stuff is crap.


21 posted on 04/07/2015 5:39:58 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Victim" -- some people eagerly take on the label because of the many advantages that come with it.)
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To: AppyPappy
Maya was known for appropriating the quotes of others.

That is a liberal resume' enhancer.

22 posted on 04/07/2015 5:40:01 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: IncPen
"Upon hearing about the misattribution, a Postal Service spokesman told The Post the quote is credited to Angelou by numerous references, including in one of President Obama's speeches in 2013."

You can't make this stuff up...

Just proving that you don't need a brain to work for the government. I'm sure obama has all sorts of teams inserting his name wherever they can, one day schoolchildren will learn about his great speech that began "Four score and seven years ago................

23 posted on 04/07/2015 5:42:06 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: IncPen

Angelou may be one of the nation’s treasures, but you sure couldn’t prove it by me.

My memories of her include seeing her foisted off on the public at some event only to offer up some insufferable prose that made me come the closest to coughing up a fur-ball I’d been been.


24 posted on 04/07/2015 5:42:15 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: DoughtyOne

Angelou may be one of the nation’s treasures, but you sure couldn’t prove it by me.

My memories of her include seeing her foisted off on the public at some event only to offer up some insufferable prose that made me come the closest to coughing up a fur-ball I’d ever been.


25 posted on 04/07/2015 5:43:18 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: IncPen

Angelou worked as a prostitute and a madam when she was ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/03/maya-angelou-sex-worker_n_5440822.html

Prostitute, plagiarist, close?


26 posted on 04/07/2015 5:43:33 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (BINGO!)
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To: P.O.E.

27 posted on 04/07/2015 5:44:13 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Alberta's Child

That’s the most I’ve ever listened to Imus. That was funny.


28 posted on 04/07/2015 5:51:07 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: P.O.E.

I’m not a big fan of King, but it does bother me to see a sign like this. Am I misunderstanding the point?

If not, I don’t support the actions of assassins targeting people I don’t particularly care for.


29 posted on 04/07/2015 5:52:16 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: IncPen

Unless that stamp is a special Halloween issue, it ain’t going nowhere. She is almost as scary as Moochelle’s mother.


30 posted on 04/07/2015 5:53:20 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: IncPen

Nipsey Russell was a better poet, and he never got a stamp in his honor.


31 posted on 04/07/2015 5:56:10 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: IncPen

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2010/09/smartest_president_in_history.html

The rug in the oval office has a misquote. Liberals revise history all the time without an ounce of regret.


32 posted on 04/07/2015 5:56:15 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: IncPen

Absolutely hilarious. Which dumbass at the USPS failed to check the quote?


33 posted on 04/07/2015 5:57:16 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: PistolPaknMama


I went to public schools for awhile so I know black people get all the good quotes.

Nobody cares about Foch, Churchill, or even Einstein anymore, much less our founding 'persons.' It's always something from Raisin in the Sun, maybe something from MLK when he was wiping his wee-wee off on the hotel curtains, or something Mandela said when he wasn't praising terrorists. Every once in awhile we get a real gem, but mostly, it's not about the quote, it's about the skin color of the speaker.

As the case would be if they were all chosen for their whiteness, or orangeness, They all sound the same after awhile.
34 posted on 04/07/2015 5:57:19 PM PDT by golux
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To: golux


But what cases of bold, outlandish, internationally acclaimed, proven fraud could be more entertaining than those of ALEX HALEY, or RIGOBERTA MENCHU?


35 posted on 04/07/2015 5:59:48 PM PDT by golux
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To: napscoordinator

Thats probly one of the good ones.


36 posted on 04/07/2015 6:01:48 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: IncPen
Maya Angelou was known for her inspirational and thought-provoking quotes...

She wasn't and they weren't.

37 posted on 04/07/2015 6:08:01 PM PDT by OldSmaj (obama is a worthless mohametan. Impeach his ass now!)
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To: DoughtyOne

http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/mlkplaque.asp

The plaque was supposed to have been a tribute to James Earl Jones, but there was a slip-up somewhere.

I don’t support it, either, just thought it apropos to the slip up with Angelou.


38 posted on 04/07/2015 6:09:19 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: DoughtyOne

Lauderhill has a high percentage of Amish.

The fact that they were ignorant enough to put up THAT sign is an indicator of the intelligence of the folks running that city.


39 posted on 04/07/2015 6:10:59 PM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: SkyPilot

THAT is nasty.


40 posted on 04/07/2015 6:11:40 PM PDT by OldSmaj (obama is a worthless mohametan. Impeach his ass now!)
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