Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: E kii ana te Kaitito a Mary Jane Lupton "Ko te tino nui o Angelou ka whakawhiwhia" ki tana waiata rongonui, "On the Pulse of Morning", a ko te mahinga "whakaari" a Angelou, i kitea i a ia e korero ana, i te 1993
I te whakarewatanga o Bill Clinton, i whakamahia e ia nga pukenga i akohia e ia hei kaiwhakaari me te kaikorero, e tohu ana i te hokinga mai ki te tikanga a-waha o nga kaikorero o Awherika-Amerika penei i a Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr. me Malcolm X. Ko Angelou te kaitoi tuatahi i panui i tetahi waiata whakarewatanga mai i a Robert Frost i te tau 1961 i te whakarewatanga o John F. Kennedy, me te pango tuatahi me te wahine. Na tana korero i hua ake ai te rongonui me te mohio mo ana mahi o mua, me te whakawhānui ake i tana tono "i tua atu o nga rohe iwi, ohanga, me te matauranga".