African Quote by Donald Johanson

“Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.”

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My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.

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It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.

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