Bozoma Saint John Quotes
I've always been a black woman in corporate America. I've faced my share of issues.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.
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Stock photos are used everywhere on the Net. Chances are, the website you are on right now uses stock photos somewhere - maybe as the featured image of the blog post. This also means that there will always be a large market for stock photographers.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.
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Oh my heart, there is another way to love. Do not love the gift for what the gift is. Love the gift for Who it came from.
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Human exploration is something that's been going on for thousands of years, and the models that worked 500 years ago are likely to work again today.
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In 'Bayou Magic,' I write about African goddess-mermaids who accompanied slaves to America.
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You know, plenty of people headed off to Canada or America on the basis of government information, propaganda campaigns. Often you'd go off with a brochure in hand and you'd turn up and it wouldn't be like that at all.
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In America idea of freedom isn't actually about freedom. That's about power. The point of an artist is to find out what are the flavors that I must work with. Finding one's freedom is about surrendering to your helplessness.
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I've always been a black woman in corporate America. I've faced my share of issues.
