Black

This article is about the shade “black”. For the race, see Black people. For other uses, see Black (disambiguation). thumb|I look inside myself and see my heart is blackI see my red door, I must have it painted blackMaybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the factsIt's not easy facing up, when your whole world is black ~ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards Black is the darkest color. It is the result of the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, a blue, and white. Quotes Black, the color of the West, of truth, revelation, and abomination. Paula Gunn Allen, The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions 1 September 1992 Beacon Press 978-0-8070-4617-3 Chapter Two Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony. Coco Chanel quoted in "Happy Birthday, Coco Chanel!", Yale University Press (August 19, 2016) The smith and his penny both are black. George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651). I see a red door and I want it painted blackNo colors anymore, I want them to turn blackI see the boys walk by pants in their summer clothesI have to turn my head until my darkness goes I see a line of cars and they're all painted blackWith flowers and my love, both never to come backI see people turn their heads and quickly look awayLike a new born baby, it just happens every day I look inside myself and see my heart is blackI see my red door, I must have it painted blackMaybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the factsIt's not easy facing up, when your whole world is black Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Paint It Black, 7 May 1966 Black as holes within a memory Maynard James Keenan, Third Eye, Ænima (1996). Red, when mingled with black and white, gives a purple huee, which becomes umber when the colors are burnt and a greater portion of black is added. Flame-color is a mixture of auburn and dun; dun of white and black; pale yellow of white and auburn. White and light meeting, and falling upon a full black, become dark blue; dark blue mingling with white becomes a light blue; the union of flame-color and black makes leek-green. There is no difficulty in seeing how other colors are probably composed. But he who should attempt to test the truth of this in fact, would forget the difference of the human and divine nature. God only is able to compound and resolve substances; such experiments are impossible to man. Plato, Timaeus (c. 360 BC) as quoted in The Dialogues of Plato (1911) Tr. Benjamin Jowett, Vol. 2 of 4, pp. 475-476. See also Colors Night Shadows External links black Category:Colors