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:

    “February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.”
    —Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)

    “But who would rush at a benighted man,
    And give him two black eyes for being blind?”
    —Thomas Hood (1799–1845)

    “Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves “oppressed,” no one would have taken them seriously.”
    —bell hooks (b. 1955)