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 KAHLOTake a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
More Frida Kahlo Quotes
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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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I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
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Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
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I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
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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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People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich – don’t want to buy anything.
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There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
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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 love you more than my own skin.
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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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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Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.
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I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
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