This goes out to children still living here in the inner city that are told they’ll never amount to anything.
And now another black filmmaker of great vision and skill will receive this special distinction in parts due south.
It shows that it doesn’t matter how you were raised or where you grew up; you can still turn out to be someone.
Never mind the old Chris Rock routine about how Martin Luther King Boulevards across America invariably tend to be especially violent — there’s a great honor in having a street named after you.