Black Ice

There are many ways to link Black Women's Ways of Knowing to Pearl Cleage's Black Ice. I noticed a lot of signified knowledge which how I broke it down is pretty much twisting words. The part that stood out to me was on page 388 where she states " A free woman is one who can fully conceive and consciously execute all the moments of her life." In class we were relating Black Ice to Audre Lorde's Theory and I related that statement to a statement in Lorde's passage that reads, "For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and within that knowledge our real power is rediscovered." The relation I comprehended was that a women can conceive and execute the fact that she feels that need to nurture and protect as she was once nurtured. This is an example of signified knowledge and Observational knowledge.