Toni Morrison, the Nobel prize-winning author who dubbed Bill Clinton the nation's "first black president", has announced she is backing the man who would actually be the nation's first black president, Barack Obama.
In explaining her choice, Morrison wrote in a letter to Obama:
In addition to keen intelligence, integrity and a rare authenticity, you exhibit something that has nothing to do with age, experience, race or gender and something I don't see in other candidates. That something is a creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom.
