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Toni Morrison Endorses Barack Obama

by Lupe Lasano in politics

Author Toni Morrison has endorsed the Presidential candidacy of Barack Obama. According to the AP, Morrison wrote an extensive letter to Obama concerning his Presidency.

"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," Morrison wrote. "That something is a creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom. It is too bad if we associate it only with gray hair and old age. Or if we call searing vision naivete. Or if we believe cunning is insight. Or if we settle for finessing cures tailored for each ravaged tree in the forest while ignoring the poisonous landscape that feeds and surrounds it.

"Wisdom is a gift; you can't train for it, inherit it, learn it in a class, or earn it in the workplace — that access can foster the acquisition of knowledge, but not wisdom," Morrison wrote.

Toni Morrison last publicly supported Bill Clinton in 1998.

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