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:

    “Kind Sir: Lost and of your same kind
    I have turned around twice with my eyes sealed
    and the wood were white and my night mind
    saw such strange happenings, untold and unreal.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.”
    —Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)

    “Come see the north wind’s masonry.
    Out of an unseen quarry evermore
    Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
    Curves his white bastions with projected roof”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)