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Black hair

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Black hair is the darkest and most common of all human hair colors globally, due to large populations with this trait.

Quotes

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  • Let the black locks spring thick and strong and grow like reeds upon thy head.
    • Atharva-Veda 6:137.2-3, sacred-texts.com, a charm, for making “strong black hairlocks” grow, apparently on the heads of bald or albino or greyed people.
  • Let him kindle the sacrificial fire while his hair is still black.
  • Change it [white hair] with something but avoid black.
    • Quotes about rules on hair coloring from the Sahih Muslim. Reference  : Sahih Muslim 2102b. In-book reference  : Book 37, Hadith 124. USC-MSA web (English) reference  : Book 24, Hadith 5244
  • Fair hair and goodness always go together on the stage. No respectable audience would believe in one without the other. I knew an actor who mislaid his wig once, and had to rush on to play the hero in his own hair, which was jet black, and the gallery howled at all his noble sentiments under the impression that he was the villain.
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