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Over the weekend I traveled back in time. I woke up at six a.m., got dressed in jeans, a tee-shirt, flats, and a red Peacoat and walked with my suitcase and travel mug of coffee to the train station in my Atlanta neighborhood. I journeyed to America’s busiest airport and hopped on a plane to New York City. One hot tea and three airline cookies later, I was greeted by two people who have known me since infancy, my cousins Tina and Ryan. We would be meeting my best friend since the age of 15 later in the day, but for now, our destination was Brooklyn. We took a cab to Ryan’s place, and the second I set foot in his two-story apartment, I knew I had turned back time to what I like to call the BMBC years: before marriage, before children.

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singer. guitarist. songwriter. mother of camille harley.

If punk rock has a heart, it belongs to brody dalle of The Distillers and Spinnerette. Read an interview with brody at antiquiet.

“I’d like to be an artist like Tom Waits where I’ll just make records and occasionally go out on tour. I’ll do it just for the pure pleasure of making records. And if a select few people like them and want to buy them, then that’s amazing. I’m lucky.”

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Born June 3, 1906. At twelve years old, Josephine left an abusive environment to dance the streets of St. Louis. At 15, she danced the vaudeville circuit before becoming a chorus girl on Broadway. She established herself as a dancer, singer, and actor in both the U.S. and France, which eventually became her home. The daughter of mixed parents, Josephine advocated civil rights and mothered twelve adopted children from across the world: Janot, Akio, Luis, Jari, Jean-Claude, Moise, Brahim, Marianne, Koffi, Mara, Noel and Stellina.

“A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must take care for.”

singer. songwriter. musician. artist. actor. mother of sindri and isadora.

“For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I’ve done that all my life.”

singer for X. musician. artist. writer. mother of henry.

“I’m very American. I love our culture. I love the pieces, the most mundane stuff about our culture, and I think you can make the best art out of an ordinary item that is usually thrown away or people don’t care about.”

“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.”