“Opportunity is what these kids lack,” Burns said. “The path is the corner or the stoop. We’re talking about these kids here on the corner. They don’t have advocates…Corner kids, there’s nobody rooting for them. You have to change that world, and where you have to start is ages zero to three. That’s the most formative years of your life, and you’re not even in charge of it. You got to go back and you got to create institutions that give that child the dignity, the self-respect, the love that he or she needs to go out into the world.”
