Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Mai sukar Mary Jane Lupton ta bayyana cewa "za a danganta girman girman Angelou" ga sanannun wakokinta, "A kan bugun safiya", da kuma cewa wasan kwaikwayon "wasan kwaikwayo" na Angelou, kamar yadda aka gani lokacin da ta karanta shi, a 1993
bikin rantsar da Bill Clinton, ta yi amfani da kwarewar da ta koya a matsayin 'yar wasan kwaikwayo da mai magana, wanda ke nuna komawa ga al'adun gargajiya na Afirka na Afirka na masu magana kamar Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr. da Malcolm X. Angelou shine mawallafin farko da ya karanta waƙar bikin tun lokacin da Robert Frost a 1961 na rantsar da John F. Kennedy, kuma na farko Black da mace. 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".