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Heaven

U neva miss a good thang til its gone...Love the one you're wit!

About Me

I am a native born Chicagoan and the single mother of a nine year old daughter. South side, low end-Englewood is where I'm from. Currently a Graduate student,Teacher,Writer,Rap Artist and model. As a writer, I was born for it and knew at the age of nine thats what I was here to do. I am the voice for the voices that have been held down through slavery, poverty, the fake ass war on drugs--no limit! I write nothing but the truth for the people whose voices have been muffled. I am working on my novel about a lil girl in the ghetto who goes from riches to rags. My work has been published in F6 Magazine, Cobblestone Magazine and have done numerous readings. Also a recipient of the JohnSchultz/BettyShiflett Scholarship Award for Fiction Writers. I have taught for numerous outreach organizations such as MTW(music theater workshop)and Teens Together, having a chance to work inside of the Juvinille Detention Center--thats the Audie home for yall that don't know. Currently teaching for Act/Write (after school writing/theater program) and the SGI (Schultz Group Inc.) teaching the Story Workshop Method of Creative Writing at Columbia College for at risk teens. My partners and I have started our very own program called TAIC (Teens Acting in Community) which was just approved for non for profit where we teach kids their history through theater/writing workshops and they perform for the community in order to dialogue about change. Musically, I have been in love with music since I was a baby! I grew up in a house full of singers. On the rap side, I can be very political but I'm versatile and so it is mostly hardcore. I started rapping out of anger, talking about the drugs and the poverty made me feel better. Then growing up and letting it do what it do I began rapping about banging in these streets. I have been rapping since the age of fifteen, started out freestyling cause my cousin encouraged me. He said, "if you can write you can rap." Well it was true for me and I haven't stopped. Some people say I'm sweet some say I'm mean. There's always two sides to every story. I am a very kind person with a big heart but very street smart. Have had a rough life and have friends from all walks of life. I can be very out in the stratosphere type of person. Being positive and staying focused is where I'm at. Intriguing,charming--conversationalist. Honesty and loyalties my thang. Love people and meeting new friends. A visionary with a caring spiritual spirit. My African Eyes are still here and the third eye is wide open!


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Your Element is Metal
Your power colors: white, gold, and silver
Your energy: contracting
Your season: fall
You are persistent (and maybe even a little bit stubborn).
If you see something you want, you go for it.
You have a lot of strength, and it's difficult to get you down.
Very logical, you tend to analyze everything going on in your life. What Element Are You?

My Interests

Rapping, astrology, education, writing, reading. Spoken Word, music, modeling. Children---I love da kids! Art, theater, museums. Food, love to eat, dining in or out. Which Egyptian God or Goddess do you represent?

Ma'at, Goddess of Order, Harmony, and Truth
Ma'at was the goddess of physical and moral law in Egypt, of order and truth. She was not much of a goddess, but more of a concept. She was what was right; she was the way things should be.
You lead a very well-ordered life. You are just and keep things in balance. You know just how to react to things, and people like you for that.



A good woman is proud of herself. She respects herself and others. She is aware of who she is. She neither seeks definition from the person she is with, or does she expect them to read her mind. She is quite capable of articulating her needs.A good woman is hopeful. She is strong enough to make all her dreams come true. She knows love, therefore she gives love. She recognizes that her love has great value and must be reciprocated. If her love is taken for granted, it soon disappears.A good woman has a dash of inspiration, a dabble of endurance. She knows that she will, at times, have to inspire others to reach the potential God gave them. A good woman knows her past, understands her present and moves toward the future.A good woman knows God. She knows that with God the world is her playground, but without God she will just be played. A good woman does not live in fear of the future because of her past. Instead, she understands that her life experiences are merely lessons, meant to bring her closer to self knowledge and unconditional self love.

I'd like to meet:

Any famous and not so famous artists as I am an artist and believe in networking. Want to meet revoloutionary soldiers and ones that know the truth about Amerikkka. People that want to create change and know that if you aint a billionaire or millionaire then you's a slave. Also, Saul Williams, Nikki Giovanni, Sistah Souljah, Dead Prez! Oh and any one with Oprah's money so they can help me open up a school, publish my books, produce my rap album and any other idea I can come up with!
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Music:

Anything that brings rhythm and bass that I can move to and feel. Hip Hop, Jazz, Neo Soul, R&B, Alternative, Classical

Movies:

Foxy Brown and any sixties-eighties movie that showed strong black people. The Making of TuPac, Dead Presidents, Cooley High, Love Jones, ScarFace, The God Father, Platoon. Horror movies---my favorite. Action packed flicks. Comedy. Any eighties movie--ya know Billy Jean,Mannequin,Breakfast Club

Television:

Don't watch t.v. too much. But when I do I'm watching videos as I love music. MTV--Kedz Show sometimes t.v. reality. Comedy--The Wayans Brothers,The Simpsons, Martin, King of the Hill or the History station, documentaries, real life crime etc.

Books:

Light in August--William Faulkner. The Coldest Winter Ever--Sista Souljah, No Disrespect--Sistah Souljah, Any and every Donald Goines novel. American Skin--Don DeGrazia(my mentor), TroubleMakers--John McNally

Heroes:

Mom & Dad, TuPac Shakur, Malcolm X, Harriet Tubman, Jesus, Hilary Clinton-- any one who goes against authority for a good cause.

My Blog

Reincarnated on Death Row

Reincarnated on death row.  I heard that saying from a famous black poet years ago, his name escapes me at the moment.  But he wrote a poem talking about our black men, dying in prison, bein...
Posted by Heaven on Fri, 25 May 2007 08:37:00 PST

Engaging Columbia College Chicago Presidents Report 2005

Jantae Spencer Throughout her undergraduate years, and now as a graduate student completing her M.A. and M.F.A. in creative writing, 27-year-old Jantae Spencer has been telling stories. Stories about ...
Posted by Heaven on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:26:00 PST

American Bologna!

How could you take us from our homesStrip us of our native languages giving us EnglishSnatch our religion giving us ChristianityKidnap our women and children, giving us Whores and ThugsStealing our Go...
Posted by Heaven on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:47:00 PST

Beautiful Black Men/Tribute to Harriet Tubman

They forced us to dancetil we could dance no' moGiving us the beat of a diffrent drummerForcing us to commit suicideThe captain is chronicling the days eventswhile the natives are all loosing their te...
Posted by Heaven on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:39:00 PST

King Tut (Field Museum)

Okay.  So everyone knows all about Egypt and how it is in Africa and how the field museums British folks and others founded all of King Tut's artifacts right?Wrong!  How untrue such a discov...
Posted by Heaven on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:40:00 PST