Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - "Rwiyo Rwakakwira Kudenga" (2002) ndiyo yechitanhatu yeMaya Angelou's series of autobiographies, uye panguva yekubudiswa kwayo yaionekwa sechikamu chekupedzisira. Yakapedzwa makore gumi nematanhatu mushure mekuburitswa kwenyaya yake yekare, "Vana Vose vaMwari Vanoda Shangu Dzekufamba" (1986) uye anopfuura makore makumi matatu mushure mekuburitswa kweyekutanga, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings". Angelou akanyora muunganidzwa miviri yezvinyorwa munguva iyi, "Handingatore chinhu parwendo rwangu zvino" (1993) uye "Kunyange nyeredzi dzinotaridzika kunge dziri dzoga" (1997), iyo munyori Hilton Als akadana "mabhuku ake ehungwaru" uye "mahomoni akabatanidzwa pamwe chete nemagwaro ezvinyorwa". Akaendererawo mberi nhetembo dzake nemabhuku akati wandei, kusanganisira muunganidzwa wenhetembo dzake, "The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou" (1994). Muna 1993, Angelou akataura nhetembo yake "On the Pulse of Morning" pakugadzwa
weMutungamiri Bill Clinton, achiva mudetembi wokutanga kutaura mashoko okutanga kubvira pana Robert Frost pakugadzwa kwaJohn F. Kennedy muna 1961. Kutaura kwake kwakatungamirira kukuzivikanwa kukuru nokuzivikanwa nokuda kwemabasa ake apakuvamba, uye kwakawedzera kukwezva kwake "kunze kwemiganhu yedzinza, yezvemari, uye yedzidzo".