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HotFreeLayouts"REASONS 2 LIVE"-debut album, now available!!Mother/Daughter/Sister/Friend/Actress/Writer/Aspi ring Activist. I'm a dreamer and an optimist. My baby girl turned 4 in February. She is the love and light of my life and gives purpose and meaning to every day of my existence.WRITING You can check out my journal "My first trip to Africa: From the Motherland to Motherhood" in The Black Arts Quarterly. Just google "Black arts Quarterly" or "Azya Maxton". I just finished the first draft of my book! Shd be coming out this year! The Black Arts Quarterly just published an excerpt of the book, so check that out too.PERFORMINGI am a proud member of the Baltimore Improv Group. I had the honor of playing the first female Pharoah, Hatshepsut, at Artscape, The 5 seasons and Lexington Market. Check out "When They were Pharaohs" on Myspace for some amazing literature,google us, or watch on youtube.EDUCATINGI am the Special Projects Manager for Young Audiences of Maryland, and the site manager for the Career in the Arts Program at ACCE. I have a residency at Cross Country and Fallstaff elementary schools through Everyman Theatre, and I am honored to have been Everyman's representative for the Baltimore Partners project at Calverton middle school this year. I also teach drama through the Lagniappe project at Sheppard Pratt and Bon Secours. I love my jobs!OTHERI had the honor of doing the interludes on Venus 7's debut album, "Primer." Look for it a cdbaby.com/Venus7.UPCOMING PROJECTS/WISH LISTI want to...start a company that will tie all of my educational/artistic visions together, Ujamaa:African Folktales for elementary schools (teaches kids basic principls of personal finance); a conflict resolution/dramatic component for junior high ; Nommo: The Power of Your Word -for high school (and possibly junior high school) students will use hip-hop and theater techniques to teach literacy and critical thinking; and STEREOTYPES: A Multi-Cultural Exploration of Expressionism for colleges and universities. BIG, BIG dreams!I want to finish my book "How I Became..." which is about "the game" and produce a second volume of poetry.I want to go back to South Africa to assist Miss Judi-Ann with the hip-hop/spoken-word documentary for National Geographic. I want to get out of debt and lose 20 pounds.I want to be rich!!!! Oh-oh-oh-oh****Stop Playing!!! Did you really read all that? Wow! Well, I'll conclude with a few lines from a poem I wrote:...Reach for the moon or settle 'mongst the stars listen to my homegirls play acoustic guitars 8 more bars on the cell in which I dwell Thanksgiving cuz I'm living I have stories to tell use my body as a vessel and my mind as an oar send out a beam of light help someone else find the shore I'm not sure but God's certain somebody open the curtain for my international tour This is my debut anthem tinted/traumatic/temper tantrums can't stand 'em too many tortured terrestrians It's time to do my best again can't stress again and let them win no devil's playground here listen to the wind or my kitchen sink drippin' take a look at my watch and see the second hands ticking no time for kicking back just yet gotta dive in and swim not just get my feet wet let my light shine and know that they feel the glow when I let my thoughts flow like the Atlantic this frantic pace threatens my sanity I'll just take what I can handle give the rest to the creator I know he can tho I am weak mere flesh must sleep wake and make waves wander into the deep can't wallow in the shallow end too long born black and a woman born strong when the ride gets rough I'll hold on not too far gone but gone too far to hold back n.e. longer I was born to be a star fish float, slackers coast stay humble, don't boast but at my funeral I wanna make my own toast she laughed, she lived she had a kid she spread peace, love and joy she's done cuz she did she met hatred with humanity she wrote, she writ she suffered, she struggled but she just wouldn't quit she inspired, she shared, she made use of her gifts God is good tho life's not fair she's gone back home we'll see her there
You Are a Bright Star Soul
Like a shining star, you have no trouble being the center of attention
In fact, you often feel a bit hurt when all eyes aren't on you
You need to be number one in everything, no matter how trivial
And it's this ego that both hurts your confidence and helps you acheive
You're dramatic and a powerhouse of pure energy
You posess a divine quality or uniqueness that's hard to define
A natural performer, it's likely you'll become famous in some circles.
Just learn not to take everyone's reaction to you so personally!
Souls you are most compatible with: Newborn Soul and Prophet Soul What Kind of Soul Are You?
