Lupita Nyong’o

“You can’t eat beauty, it doesn’t feed you…beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be. You can’t rely on how you look to sustain you. What actually sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful, is compassion–for yourself and for those around you. That kind of beauty inflames the heart and enchants the soul.”

― Lupita Nyong’o

 

“What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am being true to that self, then I can avail myself to extraordinary things you have to allow for the impossible to be possible.”

― Lupita Nyong’o

 

“You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It’s only when you risk failure that you discover things.”

― 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

 

“We don’t get to pick the genes we want. There’s room in this world for beauty to be diverse.”

― Lupita Nyong’o