"The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody."

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Source: Christina Burrus, Frida Kahlo (2008). “Frida Kahlo: 'I Paint My Reality'”

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Frida Kahlo

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Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her deeply personal and symbolic works that explore themes of identity, pain, and self-expression.

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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. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you."

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