Sen. Hillary Clinton was posed with an awkward comment from an audience member as she took questions Friday evening in Winston Salem, N.C. A woman stood up and said, "Hillary, I love you. I always have and I always will. I felt so sorry for you when Bill had his affair."

The audience reacted with noise and chatter, while Clinton reached for her glass of water and took a big gulp. "I believe now that the best way to overcome it is to become president," she said.

The woman then asked Clinton who she would pick as her running mate. Clinton ignored the first part of what the woman said - and then answered that it was premature to speak about a running mate. The subject of her husband's affair has never been posed to the senator in this manner before.

Clinton shared the stage with Maya Angelou, who praised Clinton - and acknowledged that her daughter supports Sen. Barack Obama but voiced her own support for the former first lady. Clinton reminisced on stage about their long friendship, and her admiration of Angelou's work.

Angelou read a tribute at the conclusion of the rally that she had written for Clinton and said she wanted Clinton to think about this when the polls or people say one thing or another about her and ask her why she doesn't give up. Angelou read, "You may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies, you may tread me in the very dirt but still like dust, I'll rise. This is not the first time you have seen Hillary Clinton seemingly at her wit's end. But she is always risen, always risen. Don't forget she has much to the dismay of her adversaries and to the delight of her friends risen." Clinton gave Angelou a big hug after the prose and the meeting.

Clinton will return to North Carolina soon, as Angelou announced. The senator, however, will be spending all her time from now until April 22 in Pennsylvania focusing her efforts there.