When you put a small seedling in, the roots are not deep enough to go into that water reservoir, so we need to bring the water up to the plant."

VOA: special.2011.06.14

And Alan Lomax had somevery compelling and really engaging stories to tell about actually painting himself up in blackface so that he could go into black communities, so that some of the whites wouldn't single him out and beat him up or whatever."

VOA: special.2010.01.18