Lupita Nyong'o

“To this day, I love eating steak tacos before going to the red carpets.”

“I hope we can form a community where a woman can speak up about abuse and not suffer another abuse by not being believed and instead being ridiculed.”

“As actors, you become an expert at starting over.”

“The Hollywood Film Awards were really stressful. It was the biggest press line I'd ever seen.”

“Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still experience it because we're a part of the African race. If it happened to...”

“Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.”

“I got teased and taunted about my night-shaded skin, and my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned. The morning would come, and I would be so excited...”

“I learned at Yale, one of the biggest lessons was to learn how special I am and therefore how totally unspecial I am. I was special among everyone else who was special. The fact that we're a...”