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My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.
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I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.
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Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don't come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advantages.
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We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.
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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.
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And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.
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Well, I think I am a very, very lucky person. I'm very fortunate.
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And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.
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Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.
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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.
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Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.
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