It can in fact happen when you’re in the right place at the right time.

He was, Harry Belafonte, the singer activist, who dropped out of high school, worked odd jobs, enlisted in the Navy, got out in 1945 and went to work as a janitor in a New York City apartment building. While installing Venetian blinds for a tenant, an actress in the American Negro Theater gave him tickets to a play they were performing— “about returning black...

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