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

Black is thedarkestcolor. It is the result of the absence or completeabsorption ofvisiblelight. It is an achromatic color, a color, andwhite.

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• Black, the color of theWest, oftruth,revelation, anddestruction.
  • Paula Gunn Allen,The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions. Beacon Press. 1 September 1992.ISBN 978-0-8070-4617-3.  Chapter Two

• Thesmith and hispenny both are black.
  • George Herbert,Jacula Prudentum (1651).

• Isee areddoor and Iwant itpainted black
  No colors anymore, I want them to turn black
  I see thegirls walk bydressed in theirsummerclothes
  I have to turn myhead until mydarkness goes
  
  I see a line ofcars and they're all painted black
  Withflowers and mylove, bothnever to come back
  I seepeople turn their heads and quickly look away
  Like a newbornbaby, it just happens everyday
  
  I look insidemyself and see myheart is black
  I see my red door, I must have it painted black
  Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face thefacts
  It's not easy facing up, when your wholeworld is black
  • Mick Jagger andKeith Richards,Paint It Black, 7 May 1966

• Black as holes within amemory
  • Maynard James Keenan,Third Eye,Ænima (1996).

• Red, when mingled with black and white, gives apurple hue, which becomesumber when the colors are burnt and a greater portion of black is added. Flame-color is a mixture of auburn anddun; dun of white and black; paleyellow of white and auburn. White and light meeting, and falling upon a full black, become darkblue; 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 anddivine nature.God only is able to compound and resolve substances; such experiments are impossible to man.
  • Plato,Timaeus (c. 360 BC) as quoted inThe Dialogues of Plato (1911) Tr.Benjamin Jowett, Vol. 2 of 4,pp. 475-476.

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