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The connection between these two pieces is pretty obvious. //Homage to My Hips,// by Lucille Clifton, is about a woman embracing her curves and believing that she is sexy no matter what the standard of beauty is. The poem is portrayed perfectly in the painting because the women in the piece have plenty of hip, yet they still embrace their bodies and dance regardless of their sizes.

The painting also connects to Toni Morrison's, //The Bluest Eye.// "The funkiness," described by the narrator is all the things that the black girls needed to try to get rid of. "The funkiness," was, to me, the one thing other than their physical characteristics, that distinguished the black girls from the white. The painting of the women dancing is the opposite of the girls fighting their "funk." Instead of trying to conform to the waif body and the conservative clothes, the women cherish their bodies and their "funk" and strut their stuff.

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