Kammala wannan jumla: "Waƙar da aka jefa zuwa sama" (2002) ita ce ta shida daga jerin tarihin rayuwar Maya Angelou, kuma a lokacin da aka buga shi an dauke shi a matsayin na ƙarshe. An kammala shi shekaru 16 bayan buga tarihin rayuwarta na baya, "All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes" (1986) kuma sama da shekaru talatin bayan buga littafinta na farko, "Na San Dalilin da Ya Sa Tsuntsu Mai Tsuntsu Ya Yi Waƙa". Angelou ta rubuta tarin kasidu guda biyu a halin yanzu, "Ba zan dauki komai ba don tafiyata a yanzu" (1993) da "Ko da taurari suna kallon kadaici" (1997), wanda marubucin Hilton Als ya kira ta "littattafan hikima" da "labarun da aka haɗa tare da matani na tarihin kansa". Ta kuma ci gaba da wakokinta da yawa, gami da tarin wakokinta, "The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou" (1994). A shekarar 1993, Angelou ta karanta wakarta "A kan bugun safiya" a
bikin rantsar da Shugaba Bill Clinton, ya zama mawaki na farko da ya yi jawabin rantsar da shi tun lokacin da Robert Frost ya yi jawabin rantsar da John F. Kennedy a shekarar 1961. Karatun nata ya haifar da karin shahara da karbuwa ga ayyukanta na baya, kuma ya fadada roƙon ta "a duk faɗin launin fata, tattalin arziki, da kuma ilimin ilimi".