Black Elk Quotes
To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.
Quotes to Explore
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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I love you between shadow and soul. I love you as the plant that hasn't bloomed yet, and carries hidden within itself the light of flowers. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. Because of you, the dense fragrance that rises from the earth lives in my body, rioting with hunger for the eternity of our victorious kisses.
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Most people know what to do, but they don't do what they know - because they haven't found their inner drive. Their passion.
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To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
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I didn't like playing with dolls; I didn't like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and people I went to school with were into fashion and their clothes, so I lacked a bit of self-belief and confidence... I wasn't really comfortable.
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To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.
