Maya Angelou’s misquoted stamp - and other famous lines we all get wrong | Books | The Guardian

Never apologise, never explain. That more or less sums up the US postal service's attitude this week. On Tuesday it issued a stamp in honour of the American author Maya Angelou, who died last year. Next to a photograph of Angelou is a famous quote from her: " bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."How sweet. There's just one problem: she never said it.