Bozoma Saint John Quotes

I can't be in an environment that is not conducive to me as a black woman.

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• Black
• Environment

My family moved a lot, so I was always walking in as the new kid.

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• Family
• Walking

I really did enjoy my time at Apple - it's a great company, and I really loved building Apple Music.

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• Time
• Great
• Music

You gotta go with your gut. It will never steer you wrong.

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I'm a natural optimist.

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Part of our human nature is finding new ways of being.

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• Nature

I've been told that I overshare. Sometimes I get criticized for it, but how else would I be if not all of me?

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Mentors are like friendships.

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• Friendships

Everyone is going to be skeptical if they don't know what is happening.

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I think it's interesting how you can associate a creative brand with a human being and use some of the good qualities of the human being and make it like a really tangible product that a lot of people can love.

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• People
• Good
• Interesting

I've never made a move that I didn't feel was right in my gut.

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If our employees are wearing the Uber sweatshirt to the grocery store, that would make me feel great.

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• Great

Human curation allows you to have the emotion and feel music, because it is a very emotional thing. It makes you feel happy; it helps you when you are feeling sad, gets you pumped up, calms you down.

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• Up
• Music
• Happy

I always do what I'm most interested in first.

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Bring your whole self to work because, that way, you can bring full ideas and the wholeness of your unique abilities.

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• Work
• Unique

Working at Uber, I see opportunity and potential.

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• Opportunity

I want things to be great for people of color and for women.

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• People
• Great
• Women

Pop culture and entertainment can be dismissed as surface, but it's not. It's the language we all speak, and it's the connection point between people all over the world.

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• People
• World
• Culture

Obviously, as a marketer, I love to work with brands that aren't static, that have life and personality.

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• Life
• Work
• Personality

It's important to be an ally. You don't have to be a black woman to think we should have more black women in tech.

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• Important
• Women
• Black

Marketers sometimes get caught in this lie that you must talk to people only in the voice that they recognize.

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• People

I think that people are innately good.

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• People
• Good

I have known Tiffany R. Warren for many years, and we have always shared the goal to promote diversity and inclusion in the creative industries.

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• Diversity

We only get better by telling our real story. That's the only way to be.

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• Real