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

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.

Trust your sacred-soul. It is a divine self.

The future hovered in front of her, and she rode Cruise towards it, her hands steady on the reins and her head among the clouds.

RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

There isn't a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.

I'm a talkative person because I like to get to know a person and I like you to get to know me.

To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.

I talk to God and make deals with him every time I gamble. Otherwise, I leave him alone.

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.

Nobody in love has a sense of humor.

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.