It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
Black ElkI had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
Black ElkAll things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.
Black ElkThere can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
Black ElkOnce we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us. But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.
Black Elk