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“I can’t read.
I didn’t learn how to write.
My whole life’s been one big fight.”
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“I can’t read.
I didn’t learn how to write.
My whole life’s been one big fight.”
That’s Booker T Jones in Born under a bad sign.
The song brings home how literacy connects with deprivation of all kinds.
“If it wasn’t for bad luck I wouldn’t have no luck at all”.