- ^ It was Angelou's early practice to alternate a prose volume with a poetry volume.[5]
- ^ Mayfield called Angelou's first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, "a work of art that eludes description".[6]
- ^ See Angelou (1981), p. 55.
- ^ According to scholar Lyman B. Hagen, Angelou's friend Julian Mayfield writes a fictionalized account of Angelou's relationship with Make, which Angelou never condemned.[21]
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