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Lupita Nyong'o

lines on the record: 64
first: 2019-10-28
most recent: 2019-10-28
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Yeah, and there I was watching that, and it was changing my view of myself, and it was such a powerful moment. And at the time, nobody ever called in my world, like that was never thought of as beautiful. And here you are somebody that my entire family looked up to. My mother wouldn't let us watch TV, but she let us watch Oprah. So, you know, this was something that we could agree on. And here you were giving her that stamp of approval. And I think beauty only exists when we perceive it. And in that moment, you perceived her as beautiful. And it gave me a chance to see that possibility in myself. And so the essence for me was that speech was me publicly reclaiming my right to be considered beautiful.”
2019-10-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Lupita Nyong’o: At Home with Oprah Winfrey · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly, had put me on in a room full of women that I knew would get it. And so for me, it was the only place to speak about this issue. Of course, in my speech, I mentioned you not thinking that you would be in the room, to be very honest. But, you know, in many ways, I learned to understand colorism through watching the Oprah Show and you speaking about Alek Wek and calling her beautiful and at the time it was so confusing to me. So I knew that everyone else in that room would have been familiar with this issue. Not only coloring her beautiful”
2019-10-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Lupita Nyong’o: At Home with Oprah Winfrey · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“100%. It felt scary and liberating because I was speaking about it from a place where I felt I had overcome the burden of feeling undervalued and unattractive. And here I was on a stage That a magazine had put me on, and they were.”
2019-10-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Lupita Nyong’o: At Home with Oprah Winfrey · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I received a letter from a girl, and I'd like to share just a small part of it with you. Dear Lupita, it reads, I think you're really lucky to be this black, but yet this successful in Hollywood overnight. I was just about to buy Dencher's white nicest cream to lighten my skin. When you appeared on the world map and saved me.”
2019-10-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Lupita Nyong’o: At Home with Oprah Winfrey · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, my parents raised us to make home out of anywhere we landed. And that's what they did when we moved to Mexico. They learned the language. And we found room for ourselves. We made room for ourselves. So I think, yeah, I think that mentality comes from that.”
2019-10-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Lupita Nyong’o: At Home with Oprah Winfrey · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I think growing up in Kenya and being educated in many ways, the Euro way. I went to Kenyan System School for the first six years of my life, but then I went to a British system school, and we were always learning about the rest of the world. And very little time was spent learning about ourselves. So when I moved to the US, I always just have the mentality that the world that I occupy was not necessarily meant for me, but I'm here and I have to do something with it. And so I always took my education despite being foreign, perhaps to my own experience, as a way to almost like make room for myself by understanding the rest of the world.”
2019-10-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Lupita Nyong’o: At Home with Oprah Winfrey · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And during the promotion of the film, a lot of people would come and just cry in my presence and hug me. So I was receiving a lot of energy of just people's grief, their guilt, their shame, you know, both black and white. And so I was very much occupying her spirit. And I definitely felt in the presence of the past.”
2019-10-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Lupita Nyong’o: At Home with Oprah Winfrey · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah. I thought I'd let her go once we'd finished the movie. I went through a lot of acupuncture and massage and, you know, all those things to try and let her go. But then, of course, I had to invite her back into my experience, my existence for the promotion of that tour.”
2019-10-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Lupita Nyong’o: At Home with Oprah Winfrey · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then my brother reacted, and it was when my brother reacted that I knew that they had said my name. And I just couldn't believe what had come from this one film. And I remember just feeling so grateful, you know, so grateful. And I think I said this in the speech. I was very aware that the joy in my life had come from so much pain in the character that I had played. And she was a real woman, you know. I definitely felt like I was a vessel to tell her story.”
2019-10-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Lupita Nyong’o: At Home with Oprah Winfrey · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That moment between those to and my name was an eternity. And in that moment, I had said my name so many times. I was like, no, maybe it's not. Maybe it's someone else. Maybe. And it was so confusing in my mind. And then they said my name and I thought I'd said my name.”
2019-10-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Lupita Nyong’o: At Home with Oprah Winfrey · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're going to be rejected. Prepare to hear no and to remain sturdy. In the presence of no, but what they didn't do was prepare us to hear yes. And sometimes you can hear yes and reject it. And so luckily for me, I had these people saying these things in my life. And so every day that was my meditation before I walked out the door. Just say yes. Just say yes. Accept it. Accept what's coming.”
2019-10-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Lupita Nyong’o: At Home with Oprah Winfrey · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And you know, in school, in drama school, they would prepare us for the struggle of the world of an actor, that, you know, get ready, you're going to be waiting tables.”
2019-10-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Lupita Nyong’o: At Home with Oprah Winfrey · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it was all very foreign. It felt like I was in a dream state, you know? I was there, but I was also observing myself. It was an out-of-body experience. But I remember my best friend said to me, make room for. The abundance. And my mom always had this prayer, the prayer of Jabis, I think it is, and it's about making room for abundance in your life. So that was one of the things that I was meditating on in that time.”
2019-10-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Lupita Nyong’o: At Home with Oprah Winfrey · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's a good question. I definitely feel like I'm where I'm supposed to be. However, it happened at a speed I could never have expected. And it happened with a fervor that was just discombobulating, you know? But I feel like the start was rushed, I would say, and it's taken some time to catch up with myself, to catch up with this kinosphere I find myself occupying.”
2019-10-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Lupita Nyong’o: At Home with Oprah Winfrey · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source