Maya Angelou

Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame

Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community

Presidential Medal of Freedom

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction

Letter to My Daughter

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Children

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction

Letter to My Daughter

Marian Anderson Award

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction

Hallelujah! The Welcome Table

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction

Hallelujah! The Welcome Table

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Children

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction

A Song Flung Up to Heaven

Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording

Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording

National Medal of Arts

National Women's Hall of Fame

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

How to Make an American Quilt

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

How to Make an American Quilt

Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording

Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording

Spingarn Medal

Arkansas Black Hall of Fame

Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording

On the Pulse of Morning

Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording

On the Pulse of Morning

Crystal Award

Horatio Alger Award

Langston Hughes Medal

Paul Robeson Award

honorary citizen of Baltimore

Candace Award

honorary doctorate of the University of South Carolina

North Carolina Award for Literature

honorary degree from Spelman College

Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play