Red licorice is alright. Black licorice? Get the **** outta my face with that bull****.
I've never had black licorice but I have had red licorice, which I hated, so I'd probably hate black licorice too.
I wrote "black licorice" because North Americans call licorice Twizzlers and stuff like that. Of course I'm talking about the taste of confectioneries flavored with the extract of the roots of the licorice and/or anise and not especially black Twizzlers (which I never tried).
Black licorice can have any shape.