Visitors enjoy the inauguration of the immersive Frida Kahlo exhibit “Frida,” in Mexico City, Tuesday, July 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Berenice Bautista)
Women’s History Quote of the Day: Frida Kahlo
“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
“I don’t paint dreams or nightmares; I paint my own reality.”
Frida Kahlo is a Mexican artist who is remembered for her self-portraits and her use of vibrant colors. She is celebrated in Mexican culture and indigenous culture and by feminists because of her depiction of female life. Kahlo suffered from polio as a child and multiple injuries due to a car accident and turned the anger from her pain into beautiful art and expression.
Black History Month: Quote of the Day
FILE —This is an undated photo shows abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The Monroe County, NY, Legislature Tuesday night, Aug. 11, 2020, approved the name “Frederick Douglass – Greater Rochester International Airport,” (AP Photo/File)
“It is easier to build strong children than repair broken men.”
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
Frederick Douglass was a man of many strengths. The most noteworthy of them all was the movement he made towards social reformation. Douglass was the national leader of the abolitionist movement in New York and Massachusetts, as well as an accomplished author. His most famous work, “A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” explained firsthand his life as a slave and gave raw accounts of the hardships slaves suffered, as well as his journey of escaping twenty-one years of slavery. Later in his life, he became involved with The Liberator which was a pro-emancipation newspaper, and was able to use this as a platform to tell his story.