Black Elk

Quotes by Black Elk

47 quotes found

Oglala Lakota leader · 1863–1950

Oglala Lakota leader (1863–1950)

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“To the center of the world you have taken me and showed the goodness and the beauty and the strangeness of the greening earth, the only mother — and there the spirit shapes of things, as they shoul...”
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“In sorrow I am sending a feeble voice, O Six Powers of the World. Hear me in my sorrow, for I may never call again. O make my people live!”
— Black Elk

“He was the chief of all the horses; and when he snorted, it was a flash of lightning and his eyes were like the sunset star.”
— Black Elk

“And as I looked ahead, the people changed into elks and bison and all four-footed beings and even into fowls, all walking in a sacred manner on the good red road together.”
— Black Elk

“… behind me there were ghosts of people like a trailing fog as far as I could see - grandfathers of grandfathers and grandmothers of grandmothers without number.”
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“Flames were rising from the waters and in the flames a blue man lived.”
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“Then the bay horse spoke to me again and said: See how your horses all come dancing! I looked, and there were horses, horses everywhere — a whole skyfull of horses dancing around me.”
— Black Elk