Popular Quotes by 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#Bad 81

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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#Forgiveness 63

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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#Beautiful 56

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• You face racism in small and large ways.

  Jayson Blair#Face 50

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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#Alabama 48

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• 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.

  Jayson Blair#Beat 41

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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#Ask 34

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

  Jayson Blair#Built 34

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

  Jayson Blair#Brilliant 31

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• 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.

  Jayson Blair#Blow 23

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