Bozoma Saint John Quotes
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I don't curse in front of my daughter. Well, sometimes.
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It's very personal to me and doesn't work for everybody, but what I have found in my experience is that when I make pro and con lists, it's usually because I am trying to talk myself out of a good idea or talk myself into a really bad one.
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Because my husband, Peter, died young, I've already faced the scariest thing in my life. Now I live out the dreams for both of us.
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I've always been a black woman in corporate America. I've faced my share of issues.
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I think diversity and having women and people of color in key positions is really important.
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We need better corporate environments. We need better workplaces everywhere.
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I'm living out my dreams every day.
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I've never taken the easy route. I don't even know what that is!
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At 13, I learned what it meant to walk into a room and not care what everybody thinks of you.
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Part of innovation is, fake it until you make it. Keep trying things, but it's not just the random trying.
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We all know this: Music is such a fundamental part of life.
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The number of African Americans in Silicon Valley is dismal. It's not up to one company - it's up to the entire industry to make sure that we are moving the conversation forward. Sometimes those walls of competition need to come down so we can move the entire industry forward.
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I'm following the path that was destined for me.
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We have to find ways to create content that folks want to see.
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Being a black woman in America and the world and in corporate situations is something to be celebrated.
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If you are in a hiring position, hire someone that is nothing like you. We keep looking for the commonalities, but find someone with commonalities that are nothing like you.
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You can't control everything.
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Six months after I was born, we moved to Ghana. The first five years of my life were there. In 1982, when there was a coup d'etat, my family left because the government was overthrown, and my dad was involved in politics.
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Live today as if you don't have tomorrow: my husband was diagnosed and killed by cancer within six months.
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I'm bold in personality, I'm hella tall, and I'm hella black.
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When I was in the 10th grade, I decided to run for a position on the student council with the campaign slogan 'Nuthin but a Boz thang,' so you might say joining Beats Music is like coming full circle.
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I want to listen to my Apple Music on my iPhone. I also want to listen to it on my iPad. I want to play it on my Apple TV; I want to be connected everywhere I go. It fits into the puzzle of everything that is Apple, and, therefore, it should not be seen as some sort of separate entity that is trying to find its way.
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I feel really proud of the work I did at Apple Music, and I don't take anything away from it that's negative at all.
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My job is about emotion. My job is about feeling. This might be controversial to say, but I feel like sometimes data gets in the way of that.