Dee ihe na-eso paragraf a - "A Song Flung Up to Heaven" (2002) bụ nke isii n'ime usoro nke Maya Angelou nke akụkọ ndụ, na n'oge mbipụta ya, a na-ewere ya dị ka nke ikpeazụ. E dechara ya afọ iri na isii ka e bipụtasịrị akwụkwọ akụkọ ndụ ya nke mbụ, "All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes" (1986) na ihe karịrị afọ iri atọ ka e bipụtasịrị nke mbụ ya, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings". Angelou dere mkpokọta edemede abụọ n'oge ahụ, "Agaghị m ewere ihe ọ bụla maka njem m ugbu a" (1993) na "Ọbụna Kpakpando Na-adị Owu" (1997), nke onye edemede Hilton Als kpọrọ "akwụkwọ amamihe" ya na "okwuchukwu jikọtara ya na ederede autobiographical". Ọ gara n'ihu na-ede uri ya n'ọtụtụ mpịakọta, gụnyere nchịkọta uri ya, "The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou" (1994). N'afọ 1993, Angelou gụpụtara uri ya bụ "On the Pulse of Morning" n'emume e ji guzobe ya
nke onye isi ala Bill Clinton, na-aghọ onye mbụ na-ede uri na-ekwu okwu mmeghe kemgbe Robert Frost na nhọpụta John F. Kennedy na 1961. Nkwupụta ya mere ka ọ bụrụ onye a ma ama na onye a ma ama maka ọrụ ya ndị gara aga, ma gbasaa mkpesa ya "n'ofe agbụrụ, akụ na ụba, na agụmakwụkwọ".