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:

    “Slow, slow, as a fish she came,
    Slow as a fish coming forward,
    Swaying in a long wave;
    Her skirts not touching a leaf,
    Her white arms reaching towards me.”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    “Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.”
    —Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)

    “As if that hand
    squeezing crow’s blood
    against a white sky
    beside an idiot’s laughing face
    were real.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)