| 100% | STILL | 5 | "___ I Rise," poem by Maya Angelou with the line "...I rise, I rise, I rise." |
| 59% | HOPE | 4 | "___ is the thing with feathers," poem by Emily Dickinson with the line "...It asked a crumb of me." |
| 51% | WEEP | 4 | "Immortality," poem by Clare Harner with the line "Do not stand at my grave and ___" |
| 51% | SHE | 3 | "___ Walks in Beauty," poem by Lord Byron with the line "...A heart whose love is innocent!" |
| 50% | ITOO | 4 | Hughes poem with the line "They send me to eat in the kitchen" |
| 49% | MENDINGWALL | 11 | Poem by 39-Across with the line "Good fences make good neighbors" (2 wds.) |
| 49% | IRISEIRISEIRISE | 15 | Last three lines of the Angelou poem that starts: "You may write me down in history / With your bitter, twisted lies" |
| 49% | MAYA | 4 | Writer Angelou with the poetry book "And Still I Rise" |
| 48% | ITOO | 4 | Poem with the lines "Nobody'll dare / Say to me, / 'Eat in the kitchen'" |
| 48% | ITOO | 4 | Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They send me to eat in the kitchen / When company comes" |
| 48% | ITOO | 4 | Langston Hughes poem with the lines “They send me to eat in the kitchen / When company comes” |
| 46% | ITOO | 4 | Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They'll see how beautiful I am / And be ashamed" |
| 46% | ITOO | 4 | Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They'll see how beautiful I am / and be ashamed-" |
| 45% | PULSE | 5 | "On the ___ of Morning," poem written and read by Maya Angelou at Bill Clinton's Presidential inauguration |
| 45% | ITOO | 4 | Langston Hughes poem with the lines "Nobody'll dare / Say to me, / 'Eat in the kitchen,' / Then" |
| 45% | STILLIRISE | 10 | Classic poem with the lines "Did you want to see me broken? / Bowed head and lowered eyes?" |
| 45% | RAVEN | 5 | "The ___," poem by Edgar Allan Poe with the line "...Merely this, and nothing more." |
| 44% | ITOOSINGAMERICA | 15 | Opening of the Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They'll see how beautiful I am / And be ashamed" |
| 44% | KUBLA | 5 | "___ Khan," poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge with the line "...and drunk the milk of Paradise." |
| 44% | JUMPINJACKFLASH | 15 | 1968 hit with the line "I was raised by a toothless, bearded hag" |
| 43% | HANSOLO | 7 | Fictional pilot with the line "You like me because I'm a scoundrel" |
| 42% | JANEEYRE | 8 | Novel with the line "Reader, I married him" |
| 42% | WHY | 3 | "I Know ___ the Caged Bird Sings," 1969 autobiography by Maya Angelou that recounts her early years |
| 42% | THEAFRICANQUEEN | 15 | Film with the line "By the authority vested in me by Kaiser William II, I pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution" |
| 41% | HANSOLO | 7 | Sci-fi hero with the line "Never tell me the odds" |
| 41% | TAXIDRIVER | 10 | De Niro movie with the line "You talkin' to me?" |
| 41% | MOBYDICK | 8 | Melville novel with the line "Call me Ishmael" |
| 41% | LORRE | 5 | Actor with the line "Rick! Rick, help me!" |
| 40% | FASTCAR | 7 | Tracy Chapman hit with the line "I had a feeling I could be someone" (1988) |
| 40% | POEM | 4 | Maya Angelou's "Phenomenal Woman" or "Still I Rise," for example |