Black

Black

Black is the color of coal, ebony, and the night sky. It is the very darkest color, the result of the absence of or complete absorption of light. It is the opposite of white.

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Famous quotes containing the word black:

    “White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.”
    —Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)

    “In night when colours all to black are cast,
    Distinction lost, or gone down with the light;
    The eye—a watch to inward senses placed,
    Not seeing, yet still having power of sight—
    Gives vain alarums to the inward sense”
    —Fulke Greville (1554–1628)

    “O my black soul! Now thou art summoned
    By sickness, death’s herald, and champion;
    Thou art like a pilgrim, which abroad hath done
    Treason,”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)