Black

This article is about the shade “black”. For the race, see Black people. For other uses, see Black (disambiguation).



 is the darkest color. It is the result of the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, a color, and.

Quotes

 * Black, the color of the West, of truth, revelation, and destruction.
 * Paula Gunn Allen, Chapter Two


 * The smith and his penny both are black.
 * George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651).


 * I see a red door and I want it painted black No colors anymore, I want them to turn black I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes I have to turn my head until my darkness goes I see a line of cars and they're all painted black With flowers and my love, both never to come back I see people turn their heads and quickly look away Like a new born baby, it just happens every day  I look inside myself and see my heart is black I see my red door, I must have it painted black Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts It's not easy facing up, when your whole world is black
 * Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, , 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 hue, which becomes  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  of white and auburn. White and light meeting, and falling upon a full black, become dark ; dark blue mingling with white becomes a light blue; the union of flame-color and black makes leek-. 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.