Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

Growing up, I had really bad skin. I had a skin disorder. Yes, I did. And my mother went to great lengths to try to find something to remedy it. I remember she took a trip to Madagascar and came back with all these alternative, medicinal herbs and stuff. They didn't smell so good, but I think they worked some magic.

Lupita Nyong'o

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: mexican
  • Birth: March 1, 1983

Topics

GoodMotherGreatGrowing UpThink

When you have a child, you think about your personal history and what you offer them as a larger narrative, and I realised I knew nothing about my father's circumstances other than what he'd told me.

John Burnside

FatherHistoryChildMeThinkYou

The too-big-to-fail reform project is massive in scope. In my view, it holds real promise. But the project will take years to complete. Success is not assured.

Jerome Powell

SuccessViewWillProjectRealTake

I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.

John Niven

RelationshipChildrenEndWhyNever

On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review of the impact on morale and battle effectiveness of 'don't ask, don't tell' before we repeal it. That's my position now. Now they're trying to ram through a repeal without a - any kind of really realistic survey done.

John McCain

ImpactBattleTryingSaidDoneKind

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

John Ruskin

ReligionPoetrySeeClearlyProphecy

Some day I'm gonna be gone and people will be listening to my songs and conjuring me up. In order for that to happen, you gotta put something of yourself in it.

Tom Waits

DayYourselfPeopleMeListeningUp

I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be, you spend a lot of time sitting around grumbling about how you're not doing the kind of work you really want to do. But there's a lot of complacency in that, too.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

WorkTimePeopleComplacencyThink

I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.

Mike Oldfield

FriendsLawyersJustAny

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

LongYouLivedWellHowMain

I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.'

Josefina Vazquez Mota

LifeCreatingSaidDeserveOrganized

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

Chinua Achebe

LightSlaveryLiteratureBodyBad

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Confucius

BeautyEveryoneEverythingSees

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