To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see. – Black Elk
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men. – Black Elk
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
I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it. – Black Elk
And there is no question but that you can’t sustain a mood, a dramatic mood of any particular kind, when at the end of the climactic moment of the scene, out come a couple of dancing rabbits with toilet paper. – Rod Serling, quoted in Teaching Literature to Adolescents: Plays by Alan B. Howe