“My bay had lightning stripes all over him and his mane was cloud. And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.”
Black Elk Speaks (1961)
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“The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.”

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
Source: Stepping into Freedom: Rules of Monastic Practice for Novices

Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)

Source: 'Piero Manzoni', exhibition catalogue, Serpentine Gallery, London 1998, p.144

“It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”
Remarks on The Birth of a Nation attributed to Wilson by writer Thomas Dixon, after White House screening of the film, which was based on Dixon's The Clansman. Wilson later said that he disapproved of the "unfortunate film." Wilson aide Joseph Tumulty, in a letter to the Boston branch of the NAACP in response to reports of Wilson's regard for the film wrote: The President was entirely unaware of the nature of the play before it was presented and at no time has expressed his approbation of it.
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Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You