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“I learnt that the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.”

A practical philosophy of persistence learned through experience · Autobiography, The Big Sea

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Langston Hughes

1 February 1902–22 May 1967

In the smoky jazz clubs of 1920s Harlem, where the saxophone's wail mingled with the clatter of typewriter keys, James Mercer Langston Hughes emerged as one of America's most vital poetic voices. Born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri, and passing away on May 22, 1967, in New York City, Hughes spent his…

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