- ^ Angelou returned to Dunbar's poem for the title of her sixth autobiography, A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002).
- ^ In 2014, Angelou was honored by the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials with a lifetime-achievement award for this accomplishment. She also wrote about it in her final autobiography, Mom & Me & Mom (2013).[129]
- ^ There are over 100 references to literary characters in Angelou's first six autobiographies.[174]
- ^ Hagen, in his analysis of Caged Bird, lists all the folk stories and jokes Angelou refers to and uses in the book.[183]
- ^ The ALA did not track data about banned books before 1990.[222]
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