Quotes by Bozoma Saint John - Page 2

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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Criticized
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Marketers sometimes get caught in this lie that you must talk to people only in the voice that they recognize.
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Caught
Marketers
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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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Ally
Women Black Woman
Tech
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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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Apple
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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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Self
Unique
Wholeness
Work Way Ideas
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I want white men to look around in their office and say, 'Oh, look, there's a lot of white men here. Let's change this.'
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Office
White
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I love Apple Music. I helped build Apple Music. It will always be a very, very big part of my life and part of the journey.
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Life Love Music
Apple
Big Part
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We're complex human beings. I can wear a leather dress and still have an 8-year-old and wipe up the eggs that are on her face.
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Eggs
Leather
Wipe
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The adage is true: Walk a mile in my shoes - or drive a mile in my car. There is nothing quite like sitting in the seat yourself.
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Car
Shoes
Sitting
Adage
Quite
Drive
True
Seat
Walk
Mile
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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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Peter
Life Dreams My Life
Scariest
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I was born in Middletown, Connecticut, while my dad was getting his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and anthropology at Wesleyan University.
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Anthropology
Connecticut
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Apple is a unique company in that the art and the science sit together very nicely. There's an appreciation for both sides of the brain.
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Appreciation
Both Sides
Sides
Apple
Science Art Together
Nicely
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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.
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Controversial
Data
Emotion
Gets
Sometimes Way Feel
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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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Inclusion
Industries
Promote
Shared
Warren
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It's our job as marketers and brand professionals to nurture the brand and calm it down when it's angry and to encourage when it's trying to grow.
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Marketers
Nurture
Professionals
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I believe in manifesting the words that are coming out of my mouth. I'm very careful with what I say because the intention is then out in the universe.
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Careful
Intention
Universe
Words
Believe Universe I Believe
Believe I Believe Universe
Coming
Manifesting
Mouth
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Any criticism, you should pay attention to. Whether you accept it and change or you take it and move on is the choice, but criticism is not a bad thing.
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Attention
Criticism
Pay Attention
Accept
Bad Thing
Choice
Move On
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When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.
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Powerlessness
Uber
Unsure
Real Sense
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At school, I could talk about what other kids were talking about. Maybe I wouldn't seem so strange if I connected with them on the level they were used to.
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Other Kids
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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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Culture
Entertainment
Language
Pop Culture
Speak
Surface
World
World Culture People
Between
Culture People Entertainment
Culture World People
Connection
Dismissed
Over
Point
Pop
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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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Hiring
Position
Hire
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Bringing your whole self to work is the mantra for me as I sit in my office and do the work, and it's also the mantra as I look out at the community that I'm trying to brand for Uber.
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Uber
Work Community Your
Bringing
Mantra
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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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Calms
Emotional Thing
Pumped
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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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Beats
Council
Joining
Slogan
Circle
Grade
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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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Tangible
Love Good People
Associate
Good Qualities
Qualities
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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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Dad
Born
Five
Ghana
Involved
Left
Months
Moved
Six
Life Politics Family
Coup
Overthrown
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Even though society has come a long way in correcting the inequalities between men and women in the workplace, it still has to be said that women are oftentimes subconsciously playing to the gender roles which we are taught from birth.
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Birth
Correcting
Gender
Long Way
Men And Women
Workplace
Men Women Society
Women Men Society
Inequalities
Oftentimes
Subconsciously
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I don't think it's any secret that there's a lack of diversity in Silicon Valley. But that, to me, is actually quite beautiful. It allows me to be fully me because there is no one else to look at and say, 'Oh, I should be more like that.'
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Silicon
Silicon Valley
Beautiful Look Me
Valley
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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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Work Good Experience
Bad One
Con
Work Experience Good
Good Idea
Pro
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When I was growing up, the brands that were most powerful were people brands, like Michael Jackson or Madonna. They stood for something that, perhaps, wasn't wholly who they were, which then became an image that they sold. That's still a brand to me.
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Brands
Growing Up
Most Powerful
Powerful
Me People Something
Became
Michael
Jackson
Madonna
Perhaps
Sold
Stood
Wholly
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For me, pop culture is very fluid: it's music, it's movies, it's books, it's art, it's tech, it's so many things - and as marketing and brand advocates, we should be able to to take products and services and match them to what's happening in pop culture.
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Fluid
Marketing
Pop Culture
Products
Art Music Movies
Advocate
Happening
Match
Tech
Services
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As a first-generation American, my parents expected that I would go on to have pretty tactical higher-education-type jobs - doctor, lawyer, engineer. Those were the three options. My dad was not at all open to the idea that there would not be a higher education in my future.
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Higher Education
Tactical
Options
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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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Silicon
Silicon Valley
African
African Americans
Dismal
Valley
Walls
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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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Entity
Apple
Fits
Ipad
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