“I thought that in order to make it into the pages of the books you had to be light. So, in fact, one of the first times I drew my family, I drew them with light skin.” Actress Lupita Nyong’o shared this quote in an interview explaining her inspiration for Sulwe . I found this moment so moving that it sparked an idea for a 6th-grade lesson . The aim was to: introduce students to Nyong’o as an author (they had read Sulwe  the previous week), explore why diversity in liter