“I've learned that people will forget what you said... people will forget what you did... but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou, Poet and Author

Maya Angelou

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Poet and activist Maya Angelou addresses students and staff at Tennessee Technological University.

…Or perhaps not? In an ironic twist, this quote, often attributed to Maya Angelou, is more likely to come from the sermons of one Carl W. Buehner, speaking in the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints.

It wouldn’t be the first misquote for Maya Angelou; in 2015 the US postal service created a stamp to commemorate her life and works featuring the lines,

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”

These words were spoken by Angelou during an interview two years earlier.

Even President Barack Obama attributed the words to Angelou when he awarded the National Medal of Arts, and National Humanities Medal in 2013 (likely referencing the same interview) but the quote should correctly be attributed to children’s author Joan Walsh Anglund, from her 1967 book, A Cup of Sun.

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