Black

This article is about the color. For the race, see Black people. For other uses, see Black (disambiguation).

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

Black is the darkest color, the result of the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, a color without hue, like white and gray.

Quotes

• 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, Paint It Black, 7 May 1966

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

See also

• Depression
• Night
• Obscurity
• Shadows
• Silver (color)