“I find a lot of gratitude in my first years on this planet because having to identify - or having to not rely on how I look like to seduce or to get by in life really meant that I had to cultivate other aspects of myself - my personality, my character - and get a sense of self-worth from something other than people complimenting what I look like. And now, after that, I relish in the compliment. But I do know that external beauty will fade. And hopefully, I have cultivated and I continue to cultivate enough internal beauty to sustain me through the years when I am not such a hot pick.”

— Lupita Nyong'o

On how she focused on inner beauty in “Lupita Nyong'o On 'Sulwe'” https://www.npr.org/2019/10/17/770848643/lupita-nyongo-on-sulwe in NPR (2019 Oct 17)

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