Jayson Blair Quotes

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.

Well the first thing I'd say is that I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do to show my remorse other than to say that I'm remorseful.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society.

I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done.

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

You face racism in small and large ways.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.