From her reflections on African American life and hardship in <i>Just Give Me a Cool </i><i>Drink of Water ''fore I Diiie </i>to her revolutionary celebrations of womanhood in <i>Phenomenal Woman</i> and <i>Still I Rise</i>, and her elegant tributes to dignitaries Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela (<i>On the Pulse of Morning</i> and <i>His Day Is Done</i>, respectively), every inspiring word of Maya Angelou''s poetry is included in the pages of this volume.