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.
FRIDA KAHLOTo paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
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I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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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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I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
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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 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 want to be inside your darkest everything.
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Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
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I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
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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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I paint flowers so they will not die.
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I don’t know how to write love letters.
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