"And as he spoke of understanding, I looked……" — Black Elk
"And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me."
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75 Quotes by Black Elk
Black Elk has 75 quotes on this site.
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Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching…
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Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a…
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I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my…
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Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree;…
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We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit…
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Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the…
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The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a…
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The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all…
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Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The…
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Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in…
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But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are…
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
— Chinua Achebe
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
— Marcus Aurelius
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You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you…
— Richard Bach
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security…
— Dave Barry
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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
— Lynda Barry
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It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
— Lance Bass
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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I like bold colors but usually wear black.
— Mayim Bialik
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