White

White

White is the color of pure snow or milk. It is the color of light that contains all of the wavelengths of the visible spectrum without absorption. It is the opposite of black.

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Famous quotes containing the word white:

    “Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good ...”
    —June Jordan (b. 1936)

    “It’s all sorts of middle-aged white men in suits—forests of middle-aged men in dark suits. All slightly red-faced from eating and drinking too much.”
    —Diane Abbott (b. 1953)

    “It was the pine alone, chiefly the white pine, that had tempted any but the hunter to precede us on this route.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)