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Black Elk

"And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me."

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"And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me."

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Black Elk
"And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being."

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Black Elk
"And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me."

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Black Elk
"You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer."

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Black Elk
"And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father."

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Black Elk
"But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all."

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Black Elk
"If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was."

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Black Elk
"I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it."

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Black Elk
"The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls."

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Black Elk
"The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow."

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Black Elk
"When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around."

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Aberjhani

"They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black."

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Aberjhani

"There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job."

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Aberjhani

"Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions."

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Aberjhani

"Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel."

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Aberjhani

"The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness."

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Aberjhani

"It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion."

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Aberjhani

"I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like."

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Aberjhani

"I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires."

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Aberjhani

"My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details."

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Aberjhani

"I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment."

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