Summary Of Nyong's Speech 12 Years A Slave

Nyong’o made this speech at Essence Magazine’s Black Women in Hollywood event last year. The award she accepted was in honor of her performance in “12 Years a Slave.” She speaks about her struggle to feel beautiful and her desire as a teenager to have lighter skin. She describes how she came to understand that her mother’s words were true: “beauty isn’t an external thing, it comes from the inside”. This speech is intended to empower women beauty and self-acceptance. Lupita did this speech surrounded by people who have inspired her, women whose presence on the screen made her feel a little more seen and heard and understood. ESSENCE magazine holds this event celebrating professional gains, and it’s a beauty magazine that recognizes the beauty that we not just possess but also produce. Lupita took that opportunity to talk about beauty, Black beauty, Dark beauty. She

This speech reached the intended audience. The speech is compelling because its empowering and relatable. The speech is intended to reach out to young females, and the audience were mainly females. Throughout the speech, the audience seemed to relate to Lupita story by their reaction and how focus they are, and their laughter. Though out the speech Lupita seemed to go through different emotions, by the way her voice rose and soften, the way she sounded sad, and the way she seemed to remember when she tried to bargain with god, and that seemed to lighten her speech, by the way she was laughing. She sounded as she was speaking to every girl presence and watching. She spoke with confidence and sincerity. Lupita whole speech intended to tell young girls there is no shade in beauty, and hopes that her presence on the screen and in magazines may lead young girls to feel the validation of external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside, and that there is no shade in that beauty. Her speech ended with a standing ovation. Some audience members were smiling and some were wiping