Jayson Blair

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

— Jayson Blair

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

— Jayson Blair

You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it…

— Jayson Blair

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…

— Jayson Blair

I have lived a life that has been beautiful and painful at some moments. But I am convinced others can learn how…

— Jayson Blair

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

— Jayson Blair

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

— Jayson Blair

I can't say anything other than the fact that I feel a range of emotions including guilt, shame, sadness, betrayal, freedom and…

— Jayson Blair

I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but…

— Jayson Blair

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on…

— Jayson Blair

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

— Jayson Blair

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my…

— Jayson Blair

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

— Jayson Blair

Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate…

— Jayson Blair

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight…

— Jayson Blair

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to…

— Jayson Blair

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at…

— Jayson Blair

You face racism in small and large ways.

— Jayson Blair

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

— Jayson Blair

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

— Jayson Blair

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

— Jayson Blair

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

— Jayson Blair

People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections…

— Jayson Blair

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

— Jayson Blair