"My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off."
Alexandre Dumas Père(07/24/1802 – 12/05/1870)
French writer (father of Alexandre Dumas Fils)
"My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off."
Alexandre Dumas Père
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