The problem here is they make a stamp for an award winning playwright and poet and they don’t even bother to read the poem they obviously wanted to quote from. They saw a snippet about a caged bird singing from an article. Perhaps one that de-emphasizes the “caged” portion of the title.

I worked to develop some equipment for a large postal facility and at first was annoyed at the number of mail pieces on the floor. I asked about it and was told that with the 100,000 plus pieces of mail each hour stopping to pick them individually would be a waste of time because another bent, curled, or otherwise odd…

I don’t know whether what you’re saying is true or false, and I also don’t care enough to fact check it.

*me think Sister Maya Angelou is laughing her ass off in heaven

That may be the only poem I have memorized. Because The Outsiders. *shame spirals*

[Sob.]

I will say this: sourcing quotes is a million times harder than it used to be because the wrong stuff is everywhere. Something gets misattributed online and it spreads like crazy, not just in search engines but in print media and even books. I’ve seen plenty of smart and well-educated people get sucked in. Checking up…

I used to work in the ass-end of publishing (pre-press) before desktop. I worked on a medical journal. You’d be surprised at what I caught - I was the typesetter.

I saw Nothing Gold Can Stay attributed to John Green (instead of Robert Frost) the other day. If the internet had been around 3o years ago, it probably would have been attributed to S.E. Hinton.

Considering there are exactly two things to check: (1) is this Maya Angelou’s face and (2) is this Maya Angelou’s quote, this doesn't seem like that tall of an order.

CAPTAIN Jean Luc Picard.

“Borg, y’all done fucked up.” -Jean-Luc Picard

Was this an act of malice?

Even Obama attributed it to Maya...

This is the on the first page of the first result of the Google search “Maya Angelou quotes.” Willing to bet that some dipshit was just like “eh, good enough, don’t need to source it.”