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

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 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.

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.

When you're about to judge, look in the mirror and start.

You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality.

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.

Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"?

You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.

The dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today and the reality of tomorrow.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

The most revolutionary act is a clear view of the world as it really is.

Christian life is not realized in developing the personality or in shaping human community and somehow changing the world but in turning away from the world and becoming free of it.

A right , in the abstract, is a fact ; it is not a thing to be given, established, or conferred; it is. Of the exercise of a right power may deprive me; of the right itself, never.