Jayson Blair

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.

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

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'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.