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I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
- Black Elk
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#Four
#Must
#Next
#Old
To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.
- Black Elk
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#Power
#See
#Use
#Vision
I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.
- Black Elk
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#Four
#Me
#Without
#World
I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
- Black Elk
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#Might
#People
#Strength
#Vision
I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
- Black Elk
#Earth
#Man
#People
#Power
#Vision
When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
- Black Elk
#Back
#Face
#Father
#Good
#Mother
Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
- Black Elk
#Body
#Me
#Power
#Thinking
#Vision
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
- Black Elk
#Good
#Great
#Me
#River
#Vision
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
- Black Elk
#Earth
#Great
#Me
#Spirit
#Voice
My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?
- Black Elk
#I Am
#Life
#Man
#My Life
#Wish
You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.
- Black Elk
#Clouds
#Me
#Power
#Rain
#Storm
And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
- Black Elk
#Children
#Circle
#Father
#People
#Tree
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
- Black Elk
#Children
#Great
#Men
#People
#Spirit
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
- Black Elk
#First
#Men
#Never
#Peace
#True
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
- Black Elk
#I Can
#Live
#Shape
#Spirit
#Together
Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.
- Black Elk
#Alone
#Great
#Nothing
#White
#World
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
- Black Elk
#Dreams
#Sometimes
#Than
#Waking
#Wiser
I cured with the power that came through me.
- Black Elk
#Came
#Cured
#Me
#Power
#Through
If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.
- Black Elk
#Again
#History
#How
#Read
#See
#Will
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
- Black Elk
#Breath
#Inspirational
#Lightning
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