160 Quotes by Lupita Nyong'o

Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up watching a lot of American TV.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

Human beings have an instinct for freedom.

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.

As human beings, it is our nature to dream about the future, but there is no future without a healthy nature. It's the common denominator that we all depend on, not just to live but to be happy. That's why we owe it to each other to make sure nature stays healthy.

As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

And my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned,

I've worked hard to feel beautiful in my natural skin. Personally, I don't ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.

I feel privileged that people are looking up to me and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence,