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Post: So one of the questions that I also have is when you win your Oscar, how does that impact your... So one of the questions that I also have is when you win your Oscar, how does that impact your career and how that also open doors for you to do many things that you're doing today. Well, my winning an Academy Award came at the very start of my career. It was for the very first film that I had done. So it really did set the paces for everything I've done since. But you know, what's interesting is that after I won that Academy award, you know you think. Oh, I'm going to get lead roles here and there. Oh, Lupita, we'd like to play you to play another movie where you're a slave. But this time you're on a slave ship. You know, Those are the kinds of offers I was getting in the months after winning my Academy Award. And it was a very tender time. Because you know, the world has. Now there's an expectation for. Are you and your career they were think pieces about. Oh, is this the end of the. Is this beginning and end of this dark skinned black woman, African woman's career ? You and I had to deafen myself to all those pontificators because at the end of the day I'm not a theory. I'm an actual person. I like to be a joyful way warrior for changing The paradigms of what it means to be African. And if that means that I work one job less a year to ensure that I'm not perpetuating the stereotypes that are expected of people from my continent, then let me do that. Share, believe, inspire blacks be.

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