How to quit an app from dock that will not quit!

I wanted to turn off my computer, but it asked me to quit mail. So i try to quit mail and it will not quit. Then i tried dragging it into trash, and onto the dock to get deleted but that would not work either. It won't delete or quit anywhere. And when I click "file", quick mail is not even an option! Help please

Choose Force Quit from the Apple menu and shut it down from there. If that doesn't work, save and close everything you can and use the Activity Monitor in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder to force quit the loginwindow process.
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