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About Lupita Nyong'o
Kenyan actress
Lupita Nyong’o is a Kenyan actress, known for work in film, television, and theatre. Born Lupita Amondi Nyong’o, she has received an Academy Award, an Actor Award, and a Daytime Emmy Award. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for 12 Years a Slave (2013). Her credits also include the play Eclipsed (2015), which brought her a Tony Award nomination, along with Black Panther (2018) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), the horror films Us (2019) and A Quiet Place: Day One (2024), the animated film The Wild Robot (2024), and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026).
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- “What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.”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…”Lupita Nyong'o
- “I loved make-believe. I was the child in the cupboard playing with my Barbies.”Lupita Nyong'o
- “My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know who he played, but it…”Lupita Nyong'o
Fear: more sayings
- “I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.”Trent Reznor
- “I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I…”Louisa May Alcott
- “My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me…”Isabel Allende
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Books by Lupita Nyong'o
Sulwe
2021