Bozoma Saint John Quotes

We've always operated on the thesis that a company can have a personality, that people can be themselves, and be very successful in business at the same time.

It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?

Of course I want the things I write to reflect well on me or anyone who might feel represented by me, but also, I'm not writing a guidebook on how to be or how my people should be seen. I'm telling very specific stories.

It's not about just diversity; it's about authenticity. Audiences are really excited to see more of themselves on the screen.

I want our staff to be able to feel like themselves.

To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.

I'm sure other people in the business have considered reasons why they're doing what they're doing, but I do think that if you're gay you have a responsibility to come out.

I'm a gay black guy. If I can't ask questions without caring what people think of me, who can?

I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.

Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.

I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.

I've got the best job in the world; I love it. I get to meet so many interesting people, and I get to make sure that other people with disabilities can tell their own stories as well.

I know one of the reasons I first started making Youtube videos was because no one looks like me.

It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

Just by the nature of making the choice to be true to who I am, I'm political. Sometimes that's all you need to do: Show up and be black, gay and Christian in America and actually say it out loud. And refuse to let anything or anybody take that away from you.

I'm out here to represent the gingers, the gypsies, and the outcasts. Because I am all of the above, and I'm all about having a great time.

Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn't ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that's very important.

I have found that I'm just political just by being who I am.

I've always felt a bit of an outsider. It used to worry me that, in terms of TV, I did not look like 'the girlfriend' or 'the daughter'. That pushed me to write my own stuff, as I thought no one else was going to write me a lead in the sitcom.

I wasn't able to relate to anyone on TV growing up, so I wanted to bring my own experiences to the screen.

When Donald Trump is in charge, all that counts is ability, effort, and excellence. This has long been the philosophy at the Trump Organization. At my father's company, there are more female than male executives. Women are paid equally for the work that we do, and when a woman becomes a mother, she is supported, not shut out.

I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.

There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It's a reflection as opposed to an interpretation.

Diversity is more than just a buzzword to me. It's my life.