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(Fox News) - Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning novelist Toni Morrison made headlines in 1998 with her famous comment that Bill Clinton was the first black president. Now she says it had nothing to do with his attitudes toward race.

Morris tells TIME magazine, "People misunderstood that phrase. I was deploring the way in which President Clinton was being treated, vis-à-vis the sex scandal that was surrounding him. I said he was being treated like a black on the street, already guilty, already a perp. I have no idea what his real instincts are, in terms of race."