Eve
Eve
Eveis a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, she was the first woman. In Islamic tradition, Eve is known as Adam's wife although she is not specifically named in the Quran...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRapper
Date of Birth10 November 1978
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
christian religious smart
Between the combination of Judeo-Christian religious 'be good be good be good' and Capitalist 'something's wrong with you, buy this' and the parental upbringing, which is 'you're wrong, you're not thin enough, you're not smart enough' I mean, hello! We don't have a shot.
insecure people focus
I am worried about this word, this notion - security. I see this word, hear this word, feel this word everywhere. Security check. Security watch. Security clearance. Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure? ... Why are we suddenly a nation and a people who strive for security above all else?
majority tactics polite
We must stop being polite and behaved, and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.
appreciation giving waiting
Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, 'You're good, you're pretty, I give you permission'.
father good-relationship anorexia
Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body. It was not a very good relationship. It was the sort of relationship my father had to my body. It was a tyrannical, "you'll do what I tell you" relationship.
hate self depressed-person
I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.
cancer cutting reality
Why aren't we looking at the causes of breast cancer? Why aren't we spending our energy on looking at what we're doing to the earth? On the pollutants we're putting into the earth? And the pesticides we're putting into the earth? What we're releasing into the air? Instead, we just cut off more organs! That's where metaphor comes into it - not even metaphor as much as reality.
commitment violence stories
My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.
empowering inspire seems
The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.
cities giving joy
Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most.
broken trying body
Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.
want
Decide whether you want to be liked or admired.
technology ipads car
I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It had no limits. It was invincible. It was to be conquered and mastered like the Earth herself.
journey juice calling
I'd stop calling it "chemotherapy." I'd call it "transformational juice." Infusion suites would become "transformational suites" or "journey rooms."