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David Dinkins Quotes

1927–2020 United States

David Norman Dinkins (July 10, 1927 - November 23, 2020) was an American politician, lawyer, and author who served as the 106th Mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993, becoming the first African American to hold the office.

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The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Dinkins (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.