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.

The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It’s irreplaceable.

I like to wear things, I don’t like things to wear me.

I would love to have a career that’s governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.

I think it’s a real gift to be faced with man’s potential for extreme cruelty but also man’s resilience and the fact that love really does conquer everything. It’s the only answer to these kinds of atrocities and it’s not a passive thing.

I had this vivid image of myself at the age of 60 looking back on my life and truly regretting the fact that I hadn’t tried to be an actor.

I’m pretty awesome at making salad dressings.

What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.

Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.