Bozoma Saint John

Mentors are like friendships. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

I'm a natural optimist. ”

Companies can change. Culture can change. ”

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

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.' ”

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. ”

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