We don't get to pick the genes we want. There's room in this world for beauty to be diverse.
Lupita Nyong'oI love color. I'm enjoying trying all different shades. Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.
Lupita Nyong'oThe muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.
Lupita Nyong'oI have always loved children. I've been fantasizing about motherhood since I was probably 2 ½. I loved to babysit my cousins, and nieces, you know.
Lupita Nyong'oI realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.
Lupita Nyong'oI come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through your external features. She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty. Beautiful people have many advantages, but so do friendly people.... I think beauty is an expression of love.
Lupita Nyong'o