I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
FRIDA KAHLOSexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they’re not at all the same. But they’re both symptoms inside the white male power structure.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
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Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they’re not at all the same. But they’re both symptoms inside the white male power structure.
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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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I was a child who went about in a world of colors. My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.
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My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
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I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
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I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.
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I love you more than my own skin.
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Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
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I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.
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My painting carries with it the message of pain.
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I paint flowers so they will not die.
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Everyone’s opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.
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The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.
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