I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

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.

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.

Its quietness was the quietness of strength. And the eyes were those of one who had walked through many a dark valley without flinching.

I don't think those who die are any better than those who stay alive. They just look better. They can't mess anything up anymore.

Feeling guilty is not a substitute for loving somebody

We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money.

It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer

Whatever situation you are in - be it familiar spirit, generational curses or infirmity - be released, in the name of Jesus!

O Allah do not give me in excess lest I may be disobedient.

Matters of small concern should be treated seriously.