Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

" 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. "

The Right Thing

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Self-Destructive

" I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism. "

" 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. "

" I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists. "

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

" 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. "

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