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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.
- Jayson Blair
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I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.
- Jayson Blair
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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.
- Jayson Blair
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Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.
- Jayson Blair
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I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'
- Jayson Blair
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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.
- Jayson Blair
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I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.
- Jayson Blair
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If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?
- Jayson Blair
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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.
- Jayson Blair
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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.
- Jayson Blair
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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.
- Jayson Blair
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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.
- Jayson Blair
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I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done.
- Jayson Blair
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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.
- Jayson Blair
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I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.
- Jayson Blair
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