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
country thinking males
I think we are seeing the absolute and utter collapse of male politicians in this [U.S] country and we're seeing what the underpinnings of the power structure are, which are sexist underpinnings.
thinking america violence
I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.
new-york paris saint
I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.
wall names body
What happens when someone throws you against a wall or tells you you're a jackass or puts you down or calls you bad names? It goes into your body. We hold it in our body. If we don't have a way to let that go and release that, it becomes sickness eventually.
cancer kind like-you
The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.
moving issues people
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
joy hunger absence
You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you were afraid to even acknowledge the absence because the hunger for it was so encompassing.
thinking talking different-experiences
I really do think how we frame things determines so much of our experience, and I've been talking to a lot of oncologists, like, why don't we call them transformation suites and give people transformation juice and have guides that support people when they're going through chemo so you could actually burn away what needs to be burned away, as opposed to this dread, terror, horror, which is a very different experience.
beautiful progress alive
I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.
struggle thinking years
For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together.
dream cancer ambition
Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.
love-is made
The love is all around us. I made a life of love.
violence want helping
I really want to help stop violence toward women.
tree causes looks
Do you say that tree isn't pretty cause it doesn't look like that tree? We're all trees. You're a tree. I'm a tree. You've got to love your body, Eve. You've got to love your tree. Love your tree. (Leah)