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Literature
- Speak: Melinda becomes attached to a poster of Maya Angelou as a subtle piece of foreshadowing. Maya was raped as a young girl. It's also a stealth reference to Angelou's autobiographical novel that informed the title of Speak, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings with the line:"I thought, my voice killed him; I killed that man, because I told his name. And then I thought I would never speak again, because my voice would kill anyone."
Live-Action TV
- RuPaul's Drag Race: After Mariah Balenciaga's spoken-word poetry performance in the Variety Show challenge, Jujubee gives her the nickname "Maya Angelou".
Music
- "Intro (Neon City)", the first track of Zhu's debut album, Generationwhy, features uncredited vocals from Angelou."Everyone in the world has gone to bed one night or another with fear, or pain, or loss, or disappointment. And yet each of us has awakened arisen. It's amazing, wherever there abides a human being, there is the nobleness of the human spirit."
Western Animation
- The Boondocks: Ed and Rummy spend the episode "Let's Nab Oprah" trying to kidnap Oprah Winfrey, but by mistake they grab Maya Angelou, and later Bill Cosby.
- In the Series Finale of The Ghost and Molly McGee, The End, Libby quotes Maya Angelou on the fear of living as they all say goodbye to Scratch, aka Todd Mortenson, as he starts to live his life after regaining his soul.
- Angelou appears in the Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum episode "I Am Maya Angelou", where she teaches Xavier and Yadina to use kind words to each other.
