Lupita Nyong'o Speech on Beauty

"And my mother again would say to me, you can't eat beauty, it doesn't feed you. And these words played and bothered me, I didn't really understand them until finally I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume. It was something that I just had to BE. And what my mother meant when she said you can't eat  beauty was that you can't rely on how to look to sustain you. What actually sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful, is compassion, for yourself and for those around you. That kind of beauty inflames the heart and enchants the soul..."