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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

The real rain dance is when the rain dances.

The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .

Being a winner is never an accident; winning comes about by design, determination and positive action.

'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life

Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor.

The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

Treat each class as if it were your first.

I would love to work with Bill Murray. I've always been such a big fan. I think he's obviously a great comedic actor but a really interesting actor.