her a new way of seeing themselves. 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 dentures, whitening cream to lighten my skin when you appeared on the world map and saved me. . my heart bled a little when i read those words. i could not guess my first job out of school would be so powerful in and of itself in that it would propel me to be such an image of hope in the same way that the women of the color purple were to me. i remember a time when i too felt unbeautiful. i put on the tv and only saw pale skin. i got teased and taunted about my night-shaded skin. and my one prayer to god, the
everywhere knew what she was talking about, but they didn t know the story she was about to tell. she revealed that the starburst she has enjoyed in hollywood carries with it something more profound than new acting opportunities. some women and girls now see in her a new way of seeing themselves. 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 dentures, whitening cream to lighten my skin when you appeared on the world map and saved me. my hea . my heart bled a little when i read those words. i could not guess my first job out of school would be so powerful in and of itself in that it would propel me to be
her, and as an actress who from the moment we see her sitting in a field making straw dolls in 12 years a slave, or declaring her humanity by a sliver of soap, took the personal narrative of solomon northrup and made it her film. but this is what lupita told essen essence magazine as she accepted one of many awards at the seventh annual black women of hollywood luncheon just last week. she read from a letter from a young black girl. 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 cream to lighten my skin when you appeared on the world map and saved me. lupita said she never imagined her first big job out of yale drama school would mean so much to someone, and here s how she continued. i remember a time when i, too, felt unbeautiful. i put on the tv and only saw pale skin. i got teased and taunted about my night-shaded skin. and my one prayer to god, the