Who is the Speaker on the Poem, "Homage to My Hips"

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Homage to My Hips
“Homage to my hips” is a feminist poem that aims to show the value of women, authored by Lucille Clifton. The speaker in the poem is a woman, talking about her womanly features, her hips. This is the use of body organs to describe oneself. Clifton was an American poet, an author and an educator who won awards for her skillful poems that focused on racism, gender and overall discrimination, making her poems her memoir even after she died. The speaker in the poem praises her hips then goes ahead to explain their beauty. She emphasizes on their big size, to attract attention and thoughts. The hips are physical, but the poem goes more profound than the outward appearance to touch on the strength of women, the campaigns for their freedom from oppression or discrimination, that women deserve more than what they were stereotyped. Her claim is in societies whose greatness lies in the value achieved by empowering women. In these times of racism, the writer expresses black womanhood the most by the slavery part and their manipulative ability.<...