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Richard Leakey

"Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place."

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"Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place."

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Assegid Habtewold

"Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn't popular in the inner cities."

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"I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist."

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"The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival."

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"There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is."

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Assegid Habtewold

"I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion."

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Assegid Habtewold

"When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic."

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"Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal."

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"I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African."

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Assegid Habtewold

"Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate."

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"Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then."

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Richard Leakey
"Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well."

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Richard Leakey
"A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge."

Knowledge

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Richard Leakey
"It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads."

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Richard Leakey
"Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place."

African

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Richard Leakey
"One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult."

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Richard Leakey
"The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants."

People

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Richard Leakey
"Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago."

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Richard Leakey
"The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels."

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Richard Leakey
"The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here."

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Richard Leakey
"We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed."

Time

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