Dhameystir weedha soo socota: Dhaleeceeyayaasha Mary Jane Lupton waxay sheegtay in "weynaanta ugu weyn ee Angelou loo aaneyn doono" gabaygeeda ugu caansan, "On the Pulse of Morning", iyo in Angelou's "masraxa" bandhigida, sida lagu arkay markii ay ku dhawaaqday, 1993
Caleema saarka Bill Clinton, waxay adeegsatay xirfadaha ay ku baratay jilaa iyo afhayeen, taasoo calaamad u ah ku soo noqoshada dhaqanka afka Afrikaanka Ameerikaanka ah ee ku hadla sida Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr. iyo Malcolm X. Angelou waxay ahayd gabayaaga ugu horreeya ee akhriya gabayga caleema saarka tan iyo Robert Frost ee caleema saarka 1961 ee John F. Kennedy, iyo madowgii ugu horreeyay iyo haweeneyda. Sheekadeeda waxay keentay caan ka badan iyo aqoonsi shaqadeedii hore, waxayna ballaarisay rafcaanka "ka baxsan xuduudaha qowmiyadeed, dhaqaale, iyo waxbarasho".