Posted on 04/07/2015 6:20:41 PM PDT by artichokegrower
The U.S. Postal Service issued a new limited edition "Forever" stamp Tuesday, honoring the late poet, author and civil rights champion Maya Angelou, but it carries a quote that apparently originated elsewhere.
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One fraud attributing a quote to another fraud. Not only did they steal it but the stole it from a white lady.
Its gthe seriousness of the quote....
How is this plagiarism different from the absolute
undocumented FRAUD, known as Obola, stealing
another man’s social security #?
Both are now acceptable, as is Hasan, as is Bergdahl.
Years ago, my mother had a magazine, then lost it that had a large article about how Angelou was a plagiarist. I searched for the magazine and ordered several back copies (can’t remember now the name) then searched the internet and found nothing.
And if anybody complains the MSM and all the libs will scream “RACIST RACIST RACIST”.
Obama quoted a plagiarist, but Joe “Xerox” Biden is the most accomplished known plagiarist in his own right.
It’s the stamp out plagiarism stamp.
I never understood a word Angelou ever said. Matt McConaughey makes more sense.
Great fact checking obola admin ... just more of the same, isn’t it?
The postmaster says it was a quote she referenced often.
Let me get this straight. Obama’s goddess poet doesn’t even have a single stupid quote of her own to put on the stamp by her poet face? Nope they thought it was her best quote and didn’t bother taking time to research it. Probably was her best stolen quote. And I’d have to see a single citation in her works and speeches where she credited the authentic poet even one time she “referenced” it. Fact is (drum roll) she stole the dang quote and peddled it as her own.
As you say: fraud, wall to wall.
Once more with The postmaster says it was a quote she referenced often.
Referenced is the new plagiarized.
Fake, fraud, phones in every way.
But to plagiarize it from a white lady. Is that white privilege to have your writings stolen by one of the oppressed minorities of this country?
Sympathy
BY PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,
And the river flows like a stream of glass;
When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,
And the faint perfume from its chalice steals—
I know what the caged bird feels!
I know why the caged bird beats his wing
Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;
For he must fly back to his perch and cling
When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;
And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars
And they pulse again with a keener sting—
I know why he beats his wing!
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,
When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,—
When he beats his bars and he would be free;
It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core,
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings—
I know why the caged bird sings!
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872–1906
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http://www.amazon.com/Know-Why-Caged-Bird-Sings-ebook/dp/B0026LTNFO
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings [Kindle Edition]
Maya Angelou (Author), Oprah Winfrey (Foreword)
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Caged Bird
BY MAYA ANGELOU
A free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wing
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.
But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.
The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.
The free bird thinks of another breeze
and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn
and he names the sky his own
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.
The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.
: )
“What difference does it make now”
Joan Walsh Anglund, from Connecticut, said that in her 1967 book “A Cup of Sun” quote used by Angelou, that the pronouns and punctuation were changed “he in the original “it” on the stamp”.
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