Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Mutsoropodzi Mary Jane Lupton anoti "ukuru hukuru hwaAngelou huchaunzwa" kunhetembo yake inozivikanwa zvikuru, "On the Pulse of Morning", uye kuti kuita kwaAngelou kwe"theatrical" kwacho, sekuonekwa kwaakazviita, pa 1993
pakugadzwa kwaBill Clinton, akashandisa hunyanzvi hwaakadzidza semutambi uye mutauri, achiratidza kudzoka kune tsika yemuromo yeAfrica-America yevatauri vakaita saFrederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr. naMalcolm X. Angelou ndiye mudetembi wekutanga kuverenga nhetembo yekugadzwa kubvira Robert Frost muna 1961 pakugadzwa 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".