David Dinkins quote

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.
David Dinkins
David Dinkins
David Dinkins
Born: Jul 10, 1927

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Cleaning, Cooking, People, Mother, Other, New, She, Came, Were, York, New York, Grandmother, Here

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