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“I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.”

Lupita Nyong’o, photographed by Matias Indjic during the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival for Madame Figaro, June 2015.

Lupita Nyong’o | D23 Expo 2015

Baby 6 year old Lupita Nyong’o singing about Elephants! (x)

First of all I want to say this is my first time at Disneyland

A small galaxy’s worth of tracking dots affixed to Lupita Nyong’o’s face allowed artists at Industrial Light & Magic to transform her into the C.G.I. character Maz Kanata. And while we may not know which side of the Resistance  […] Lupita Nyong’o’s C.G.I. character, Maz Kanata, is on, we do know […] that she’s a pirate. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

Beauty in white - Lupita in Paris Match Magazine

On the responsibility that comes with her skin color: “I don’t feel like the responsibility I feel comes from any place other than my gut. I feel a responsibility to speak about certain things because I wish someone had spoken about them for me. I know I’m in a unique position where lots of people all over the world are seeing me and connecting with me, and perhaps because of my demographic and how limited representation is for my demographic, I do feel not a responsibility but an impetus to speak. It’s an impetus. It’s 2015, man. We could all use some diversity. It can get tedious to have to explain that I speak English because Kenyans speak English.” - Harper’s Bazaar UK, May 2015

Actress Lupita Nyong’o speaks on stage at the 2014 Massachusetts Conference for Women at Boston Convention & Exhibition Center on December 4, 2014 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Actress Lupita Nyong’o speaks on stage at the 2014 Massachusetts Conference for Women at Boston Convention & Exhibition Center on December 4, 2014 in Boston, Massachusetts.

European standards of beauty are something that plague the entire world — the idea that darker skin is not beautiful, that light skin is the key to success and love. Africa is no exception. When I was in the second grade, one of my teachers said, “Where are you going to find a husband? How are you going to find someone darker than you?” I was mortified. I remember seeing a commercial where a woman goes for an interview and doesn’t get the job. Then she puts a cream on her face to lighten her skin, and she gets the job! This is the message: that dark skin is unacceptable. I definitely wasn’t hearing this from my immediate family—my mother never said anything to that effect—but the voices from the television are usually much louder than the voices of your parents.

Lupita by John Baldessari for Visionaire 64 ‘ART’

Lupita on diversity in pop culture