Best Frida Kahlo Quotes-Sayings: Frida Kahlo de Rivera was born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón on 6 July 1907 in Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico. She was a Mexican artist who earned considerable praise and fame for her paintings inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico, including self-portraits.
She was bothered with polio as a child, began her school education some years later than usual, although she had done extremely well in academics and attended the study at the prestigious National Preparatory School.
Kahlo started painting after an accident with the purpose of keeping herself occupied and built strong recognition as a painter of self-portraits. She highly acclaimed for her works including ‘The Suicide Of Dorothy Hale’, ‘Without Hope’, ‘Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress’, ‘The Two Fridas’, ‘Diego And I’, ‘The Wounded Deer’, ‘Henry Ford Hospital’.
Frida Kahlo is also popular among the readers for her most influential quotes or sayings that worked as life-changing, motivational, and inspirational. We picked out some best Frida Kahlo quotes or sayings for all who seek quotations to get encouragement.
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”
“Some know the value of education by having it. I know its value by not having it.”
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”
“I love you more than my own skin.”
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“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”
“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”
“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.”
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
“The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.”
“My hopes were never brighter than now.”
“I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.”
“My painting carries with it the messages of pain.”
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“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.”
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
“Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.”
“What to the Slave is the 4th of July.”
“Experience is a keen teacher;”
“There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.”
“A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnanimity.”
“I could kill that guy and eat it afterwards…”
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“The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.”
“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”
“A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.”
“I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.”
“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”
“The destiny of the colored American … is the destiny of America.”
“The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.”
“Feet, what do I need you for if I have wings to fly?”
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“Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.”
“A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.”
“Our destiny is largely in our hands.”
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
“A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.”
“He treated me as a man… He did not let me feel for a moment that there was any difference in the color of our skins.”
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
“I want to be inside your darkest everything.”
“A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.”
“People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.”
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
“Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.”
“Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.”
“A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.”