Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: "He Waiata i Heke ki te Rangi" (2002) ko te tuaono o nga raupapa a Maya Angelou o nga korero mo te koiora, a i te wa i whakaputaina ai ka kiia ko te waahanga whakamutunga. I oti i te 16 tau i muri mai i te whakaputanga o tana tuhinga o mua, "All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes" (1986) me te neke atu i te toru tekau tau i muri mai o te whakaputanga o tana pukapuka tuatahi, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings". I tuhia e Angelou nga kohinga tuhinga e rua i roto i te wa poto, "Kaore au e tango i tetahi mea mo taku haerenga inaianei" (1993) me te "Even the Stars Look Lonesome" (1997), i kiia e te kaituhi a Hilton Als ko ana "pukapuka whakaaro nui" me nga "korero i honoa ki nga tuhinga whaiaro". I haere tonu ia i tana waiata me etahi pukapuka, tae atu ki te kohinga o ana whiti, "The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou" (1994). I te tau 1993, ka korerotia e Angelou tana waiata "On the Pulse of Morning" i te
te whakatūnga mai o te Perehitini o Bill Clinton, hei te kaitoi tuatahi ki te whakatūnga mai i te whakatūnga mai o Robert Frost i te whakatūnga mai o John F. Kennedy i te tau 1961. 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".