Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Bozoma Saint John - Page 2

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.

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.

I don't see a utopia anywhere for me.

I don't expect anyone who doesn't look like me to fix my problems.

I want to be something that is worthy to be bragged about.

I've never run from a job; I've always run to another one.

I don't curse in front of my daughter. Well, sometimes.

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.

I think diversity and having women and people of color in key positions is really important.

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

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.

We all know this: Music is such a fundamental part of life.

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

Being a black woman in America and the world and in corporate situations is something to be celebrated.

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

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.'

I think that people are innately good.

I firmly believe brand stories are complex and multilayer.

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

At 13, I learned what it meant to walk into a room and not care what everybody thinks of you.

I don't have to be an engineer to understand we need female engineers.

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.

I'm bold in personality, I'm hella tall, and I'm hella black.

You can't control everything.

I'm a natural optimist.

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

Part of innovation is, fake it until you make it. Keep trying things, but it's not just the random trying.

We need better corporate environments. We need better workplaces everywhere.

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.

I'm always trying to do things better than I've done them before, do them faster than I've done them before.

I've always been a black woman in corporate America. I've faced my share of issues.

I was born in Middletown, Connecticut, while my dad was getting his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and anthropology at Wesleyan University.

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.

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.

We should all be allies to ideas or people or initiatives that we don't necessarily have a real knowledge in.

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

Music inspires some feeling in you. That's the same way I think about Uber.

Mentors are like friendships.

I am very competitive - with myself and everybody else. I'm petty, too.

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