Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: "Tsamba Kumwanasikana Wangu" ibhuku rechitatu rezvinyorwa zvaMaya Angelou. Akanga abudisa mavhoriyamu anoverengeka enhetembo, kusanganisira "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'before I Diiie" (1971), iyo yakasarudzwa nokuda kwePulitzer Prize. Akanga adudza nhetembo yake, "On the Pulse of Morning", pa
kugadzwa kwaMutungamiri Bill Clinton muna 1993, achimuita mudetembi wokutanga kuita hurukuro yokutanga kubvira Robert Frost pakugadzwa kwaJohn F. Kennedy muna 1961. Muna 2009, apo "Tsamba" yakabudiswa, Angelou akanga abudisa zvikamu zvitanhatu kubva muzvikamu zvinomwe zvehupenyu hwake. Nhoroondo yake yehupenyu yechitanhatu, "Rwiyo Rwakakwira Kudenga" (2002), rwaionekwa seyekupedzisira nhoroondo yehupenyu kusvikira aburitsa nhoroondo yake yechinomwe, "Amai & Me & Amai", muna 2013, pazera remakore makumi masere nemashanu.