Black Beauty

Approximately 1 week before Lupita Nyong'o won an Oscar, she gave this speech after winning the Essence Magazine Black Women In Hollywood Breakthrough Performance Award.  


Watch the video of her speech below:

Consider the video you just watched and choose from the prompts below to spark your writing:

• Imagine yourself growing up with a different skin colour. What are some of the negative things you might experience?
• Explain why you think Lupita would have prayed for God to lighten her skin colour. What are some of the things that you can picture her thinking would have been different in her life?
• Have you ever experienced a time in your life when you felt 'unbeautiful', like Lupita? What (if anything) happened to change your opinion?
• Lupita had a life changing moment, with another young black woman being called beautiful and inspiring by Oprah Winfrey. Who do you consider an inspiration in your life, and why?

Write your post on your blog and copy/paste the link into the comments below.

Now, if you were to choose one or two sentences to quote and create a visual image (like our 6 word memoirs or our Tuck quotes from last year), which words would you choose?  Can you create a visual to represent what you took away from Lupita's speech?  Create your visual and post in your blog post.