Red

Red

Red is the color of blood, a ruby, and strawberries. It is next to orange at the end of the visible spectrum of light, and is commonly associated with danger, sacrifice, passion, fire, beauty, blood, anger, socialism and communism, and in China and many other cultures, with happiness.

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Famous quotes containing the word red:

    “From behind the red gates comes the stink of wine and meat, while along the road sides lie the bones of the frozen dead.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “their red cloaks
    wrapped tight to the bone”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)