They will recline on jewelled couches

They will recline on jewelled couches

But if you can imagine this young man with his headdress and his flowing robe,

Over the seven jewelled hills, beyond the seventh fall, in the cottage of the Seven Dwarfs, dwells Snow White, fairest one of all.

Sure. And how about me taking a picture of a medicine man, you know, with the fancy headdress and all the trimmings,

Leymah stands up with deliberation, reaches her arms up over her head, and begins, very slowly, to untie her headdress that covers her hair.

As the senior officer approaches with a baton, Layma stands up with deliberation, reaches her arms up over her head, and begins, very slowly, to untie her headdress that covers her hair.

Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don't cover your lips, and don't eat men's bread.

And these 20 old men who I'd seen before all of a sudden stood up in these full warrior costumes with the headdress and the spears, and no one was in the square, and I was hidden in the shadows.

But if you can imagine this young man with his headdress and his flowing robe, learning a new language, Portuguese, not to mention English, going to Rio, building a bridge to reach out to people he'd never met before a pretty hostile world.