{"id":13826,"date":"2015-04-09T00:22:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T00:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mytrendybuzz.com\/blog\/?p=13826"},"modified":"2015-04-09T00:22:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T00:22:45","slug":"the-maya-angelou-stamp-looks-like-her-but-doesnt-sound-like-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mytrendybuzz.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/09\/the-maya-angelou-stamp-looks-like-her-but-doesnt-sound-like-her\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maya Angelou Stamp Looks Like Her But Doesn\u2019t Sound Like Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>The late poet extraordinaire, <strong>Maya Angelou<\/strong> was feted in DC on Tuesday during a ceremony that officially unveiled a stamp that was initiated in her honor. The affair was attended by the likes of<strong> Michelle Obama<\/strong> and <strong>Oprah Winfrey<\/strong> as both ladies gave stirring speeches to remind us why Angelou is worthy of being added to a revered American institution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mytrendybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/la-et-jc-maya-angelou-stamp-revealed-20150304-001.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13827\" src=\"http:\/\/mytrendybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/la-et-jc-maya-angelou-stamp-revealed-20150304-001.jpeg\" alt=\"la-et-jc-maya-angelou-stamp-revealed-20150304-001\" width=\"573\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mytrendybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/la-et-jc-maya-angelou-stamp-revealed-20150304-001.jpeg 573w, http:\/\/mytrendybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/la-et-jc-maya-angelou-stamp-revealed-20150304-001-300x191.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As humbled as Angelou would have been to have her very own stamp assigned to her, she may have not been psyched to realize that the phrase used to accompany her image actually belong to someone else. The text which reads, \u201cA bird doesn\u2019t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song\u201d was actually dreamed up by another author <strong>Joan Walsh<\/strong> <strong>Anglund<\/strong> from her 1967 book,<em> A Cup of Sun<\/em>. But of course, Angelou who is famous for her 1969 autobiography, <em>I Know Why the caged Bird Sings<\/em> could have easily uttered the words she was bequeathed with but unfortunately due diligence failed to capture the reality that she didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>So now it\u2019s back to the drawing board as they say. Anglund for her part, is shocked mistake wasn\u2019t intercepted before the stamp was made public, but for most it shows how carelessly we handle the ones who deserve our precise attention.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late poet extraordinaire, Maya Angelou was feted in DC on Tuesday during a ceremony that officially unveiled a stamp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,38,6],"tags":[2247,150,690],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Maya Angelou Stamp Looks Like Her But Doesn\u2019t Sound Like Her - MyTrendyBuzz<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Maya Angelou stamp assigned words that don&#039;t belong to her.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/mytrendybuzz.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/09\/the-maya-angelou-stamp-looks-like-her-but-doesnt-sound-like-her\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Maya Angelou Stamp Looks Like Her But Doesn\u2019t Sound Like Her - 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