Jayson Blair Quotes & Sayings

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

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

“I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.”

“I have lived a life that has been beautiful and painful at some moments. But I am convinced others can learn how to control a certain kind of rage that bubbles up in many Americans, particularly, but not limited to, women, blacks, and other minorities.”

“Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I'm going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they'll be able to walk away with something good from it.”

“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.”

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

“Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.”

“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.”

“You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.”