jaimes

actor. singer. dancer. my grandpa’s favorite pin-up girl. mother of victoria and jessica.

“The woman’s vision is deep reaching, the man’s far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.”

actor. activist for women’s rights and gay rights. mother of robert, william, and rebecca.

“The minute someone says `Oh God, you could never do that; you can’t get that kind of stuff on the air. That’s the kind of stuff I want to do.”

singer. actor. activist. mother of schuyler and madison.

“When I started out in independant films in the early 70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn’t about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You’d die before you’d be bought.”

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.”

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