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A young black girl decided to not bleach her skin after seeing the success of Lupita Nyong’o.
Lupita Nyong’o was inspired to be an actress after seeing Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple.
Whoopi Goldberg realized she could BE an actress after seeing Nichelle Nichols in Star Trek
When I was nine years old, Star Trek came on. I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, “Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there’s a black lady on television and she ain’t no maid!”
I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.
— Whoopi Goldberg
I’ve been watching Xena lately, and idly wondering about the kind of internet firestorm that would result today if a television show cast a black actress as Helen of Troy.
