Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

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• What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.
• [My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.
• No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.
• What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.
• 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 inflamed…
• You can’t eat beauty. It doesn’t feed you.
• It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.
• That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade…
• Happiness is the most important thing.
• 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…
• I feel privileged that people are looking up to me and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence,
• I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.
• Human beings have an instinct for freedom.
• In the madness, you have to find calm.
• It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.
• I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.
• You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.
• I went to the Independent Spirit Awards and won.
• Being called gorgeous is not a bad thing! But at the same time, I don’t want to thrive on people’s opinions of me.
• Everyone said, ‘Brace yourself, Lupita! Keep a granola bar in that clutch of yours!’ I didn’t really understand what they meant, and it was only…

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