Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mutsoropodzi Mary Jane Lupton anoti "hukuru hukuru hwaAngelou huchaunzwa" kunhetembo yake inozivikanwa kwazvo, "On the Pulse of Morning", uye kuti kuita kwaAngelou "kwezvemitambo", sekuonekwa kwaakazviita paakadzokorora, muna 1993 pakugadzwa kwaBill Clinton
, akashandisa unyanzvi hwaakadzidza semutambi uye mukurukuri, achiratidza kudzoka kune tsika yemuromo yeAfrica-America yevatauri vakadai saFrederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr. uye Malcolm X. Angelou ndiye mudetembi wekutanga kuverenga nhetembo yekugadzwa kubvira Robert Frost pa1961 kugadzwa kwaJohn F. Kennedy, uye wekutanga mutema nemukadzi. Kutaura kwake kwakatungamirira kukuzivikanwa kukuru nokuzivikanwa nokuda kwemabasa ake apakuvamba, uye kwakawedzera kukwezva kwake "kunze kwemiganhu yedzinza, yezvemari, uye yedzidzo".