Lupita Nyong’o slays on the cover of Dazed & Confused February 2014 issue. Photographed by Sharif Hamza, the Mexico born Kenyan, who studied acting at Yale, and who made her debut as Patsey in Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave, looks utterly and divinely gorgeous. Her skin is radiant, her gaze sustained, her poise eloquent.  I can stare at her and praise her for days, I can mine the English language for platitudes and flattery and I will come up short. This is beauty in flesh walking among us. This is why we are alive: to serve as witness.