I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it. - Black Elk 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me. - Black Elk 3 Share Now -
I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength. - Black Elk 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men. - Black Elk 6 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
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 10 Share Now -
