Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o’s speech on beauty that left an entire audience speechless

I will forever feel the following way about Lupita Nyong’o winning an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for “12 Years a Slave”: But a few days before her historic Oscar win (for the first movie she’s ever been in!) Lupita accepted an award for Best Breakthrough Performance at the seventh annual Black Women in Hollywood…

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Mar 3, 2014

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