I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me.
I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me. - Lupita Nyong'o
I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me.
- Lupita Nyong'o
You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty i… - Lupita Nyong'o
You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty i…
I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be. - Lupita Nyong'o
I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.
Every time I overcome an obstacle, it feels like success. Sometimes the biggest ones are in our head - the saboteurs that tell us we can't. - Lupita Nyong'o
Every time I overcome an obstacle, it feels like success. Sometimes the biggest ones are in our head - the saboteurs that tell us we can't.
We don't get to pick the genes we want. There's room in this world for beauty to be diverse. - Lupita Nyong'o
We don't get to pick the genes we want. There's room in this world for beauty to be diverse.
You have to allow for the impossible to be possible. - Lupita Nyong'o
You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.
Your value is in yourself; the other stuff will come and go. - Lupita Nyong'o
Your value is in yourself; the other stuff will come and go.
What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough. - Lupita Nyong'o
What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.
You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. - Lupita Nyong'o
You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.
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