Jayson Blair Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

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

“You face racism in small and large ways.”

“People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.”

“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.”

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

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