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 KAHLOI am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
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I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
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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.
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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
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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 drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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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 want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
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Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
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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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Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
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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.
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I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
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