My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestic… — David Dinkins

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

David DinkinsPolitician · American · b. 1927

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Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. — Friedrich Nietzsche
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children. — Benjamin Disraeli
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. — Honore de Balzac
As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then. — David Dinkins
I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs. — David Dinkins
In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee. — David Dinkins