
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971), p. 113
Fourteen Black Paintings
Song lyrics, Us (1992)
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971), p. 113
“The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 9.
Saturday Night Live ( monologue https://www.facebook.com/snl/videos/10154881142446303/), 21 January 2017.
Black Elk Speaks (1961)
Context: When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the West, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the storm of vision has passed, the world is greener and happier; for wherever the truth of vision comes upon the world, it is like a rain. The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm. … you have noticed that truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping. … as lightning illuminates the dark, for it is the power of lightning that heyokas have.
“The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.”
The Wild Garden (London: Secker & Warburg, 1963) p. 149.
“Real power comes not from hate, but from truth.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.”
Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness