homage to my hips is a poem written by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Lucille Clifton. The poem is a message of empowerment, celebrating both the female body and mind.

Clifton used the poem to draw upon the physical attributes of black women,...

Lucille Clifton’s first collection of poetry was published the year after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1969, Clifton was already over thirty and the mother of six children not even old enough for middle school yet. Once the New...