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“Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“I dress according to how I feel.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“What is becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“No matter where you are from, your dreams are valid.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“I spent some time in Mexico because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“I think beauty is an expression of love.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“In the madness, you have to find the calm.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“You can’t rely on how you look to sustain you. What sustains us is what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and for those around you.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“I definitely love fantasy and would love to be in a fantasy project.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“Home is where my family is.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“What I’ve learned from myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else. Who I am is good enough.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“You can’t eat beauty. It doesn’t feed you.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“I come from a close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive… I have fourteen classmates.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don’t have to keep saying, ‘We don’t have work for black women.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one’s own culture.” – 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.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“Human being have an instinct for freedom.” – Lupita Nyong’o

“I do not need to be so full of myself that I feel I am without flaw. I can feel beautiful and imperfect at the same time.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“Dreams are the foundation of Hollywood. And dreams are the foundation of America.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“Your value is in yourself. All that other stuff will come and go.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I had to just be.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“It’s only when you risk failure, that you discover things. When you play it safe, you are not expressing the utmost of your human experience.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“That’s such a powerless place for me to think about: what is working against me. I don’t think of what I don’t have; I think of what I do and use that to get the next thing.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“There is no shame in black beauty.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“I feel privileged that people are looking up to me and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence.”- Lupita Nyong’o
“Personally, I don’t ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“I learned at Yale, one of the biggest lessons was to learn how special I am. I was special among everyone who was special. The fact that we are all so individual and that’s what makes us special.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.” – Lupita Nyong’o
“We as human beings have the capacity for extreme cruelty.” -Lupita Nyong’o
“I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.” – Lupita Nyong’o
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