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America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

Djimon Hounsou

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Djimon Hounsou
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 24
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Djimon Gaston Hounsou
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