Joan Walsh Anglund Quotes

Joan Walsh Anglund is an American poet and children's book author. As of 2014, she had sold over 45 million books worldwide.In 2015 a United States Postal Service stamp was issued commemorating the American author and poet Maya Angelou with the Joan Walsh Anglund quote "A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song" though the stamp apparently attributes the quote to Angelou. The quote is from Anglund's book of poems A Cup of Sun . President Obama also wrongly attributed the sentence to Angelou during the presentation of the 2013 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal. Wikipedia

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“A bird doesn't sing because he has an answer, he sings because he has a song”

Joan Walsh Anglund

The quote has been misattributed to Maya Angelou at times, including on U.S. postage.
This quote by Joan Walsh Anglund (1967 in her book, A Cup of Sun) has been widely used by Maya Angelou without attribution to Walsh Walsh Anglund, and wrongly misattributed to Maya Angelou many, many times, including on U.S. postage. However, the quote belongs to Joan Walsh Anglund, and is from her book "A Cup of Sun" published in 1967. However, Maya Angelou changed the pronoun "He" to "It" but quoted everything else of Joan Walsh Anglund. Why Maya Angelou never attributed her most famous quote as being Joan Walsh Anglund's is still a mystery to this day.
Source: A Cup of Sun: A Book of Poems (1967)

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“I think of the telephone as a spiritual thing. Your bodies don't have to unite you, but your spirits can unite.”

Joan Walsh Anglund

As quoted in Kentucky News September 13, 2014 http://www.kentucky.com/2014/09/13/3427193_joan-walsh-anglund-a-writer-with.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy

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