Well, I'm not sure, but of ...

Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished.
 David Dinkins

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My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.
 David Dinkins
Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.
 David Dinkins
I love kids and I maintain that they are our future, that we adults owe them the ability to achieve their potential and that we don't own this planet. We hold it in trust for them.
 David Dinkins
. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of hard work and accomplishment and service to city and nation still exist.
 David Dinkins