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Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe. (57) Once African American women are aware of the power they have to change, it is their moral obligation to themselves to move away from sites that continue to devalue them as women.
18 Self-definition and self-empowerment are exercised when women collectively express and practice their changed female consciousness within and at the center of dominant discourse. Lorde points out “For it is through the coming together of self-actualized Bl ac k F e m a l e Mov e m e n t 39 individuals . . that any real advances can be made” (46). Progress, then, according to Lorde, is one that is affirmed by women with like ideas for promoting black womanhood. In the final phase in the Transient Woman’s movement, Reentry or Materialization, the black female subject emerges from “beyond” or safe space to assert female agency and independence.
That she realizes that she is black (9). With this new knowledge of her forced marginality, Janie, like Linda Brent, realizes that her “place” is the same as her grandmother’s: to serve and be exploited by others. This element of difference begins for the female an interrogation of her racial identity. In some situations, the process begins immediately when the black female realizes that her racial difference lies in her assigned position, which is notably different from that of her white counterpart.
