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I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.

Frida Kahlo

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 KAHLO

Comparison Mal Power Problem Racism Same Sex Structure Symptom
I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
FRIDA KAHLO

Curtain Freedom Madness
I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
FRIDA KAHLO

Canvas Mind Painting
What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.
FRIDA KAHLO

Death Express Fear Hero Intense Invention Life People Reason
I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
FRIDA KAHLO

Hope Joy Leaving Let Go Return
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.
FRIDA KAHLO

People Same Stranger Thinking World
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
FRIDA KAHLO

Artist Carry Message Pain Painting
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
FRIDA KAHLO

Alcohol Learning Sorrow Swim
Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
FRIDA KAHLO

Destiny Destroy Earth Mankind
I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
FRIDA KAHLO

Flood Song Storm Writing
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
FRIDA KAHLO

Feet Fly Inspirational Wings
My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
FRIDA KAHLO

Blood Heart Miracle Vein
Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
FRIDA KAHLO

Bridge Change Pain Passion
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
FRIDA KAHLO

Biscuit Look Lover
You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.
FRIDA KAHLO

Count Deserve Encouragement Honesty People
I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
FRIDA KAHLO

Agreement Father Mother Teaching

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.

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