Cack-handed : a memoir / Gina Yashere.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yashere, Gina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yashere, Gina.

Women comedians--England--Biography.

Women comedians.

Comedians--England--Biography.

Comedians.

Children of immigrants--England--Biography.

Children of immigrants.

Mothers and daughters--Biography.

Mothers and daughters.

Nigerians--England--Biography.

Nigerians.

Actresses--England--Biography.

Actresses.

Television personalities--England--Biography.

Television personalities.

Authors, English--Biography.

Authors, English.

England.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 305 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]

Summary:

The producer and writer of the CBS hit series "I Heart Abishola" tells the story of growing up as the child of Nigerian immigrants in London and her career as a stand-up comic and eventual Hollywood success.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Man Is like Pepper

You Only Know Him When You've Ground Him

2. Languages Differ, but Coughs Are the Same

3. A Snake Can Only Give Birth to Long Things

4. When the Laborer Is Praised, His Cutlass Begins to Cut More Keenly

5. Going to Church Doesn't Make You a Holy Person Any More Than Going to a Garage Makes You a Mechanic

6. If You Are Eating with the Devil, You Must Use a Long Spoon

7. It Is Not What You Are Called, but What You Answer To

8. If You Sleep with an Itching Anus, You Will Definitely Wake Up with Your Hand Smelling

9. Where You Fall, You Should Know that It Is God Who Pushed You

10. Procrastination Is the Thief of Time

11. The Same Sun That Melts Wax Also Hardens Clay

12. Success Is 10 Percent Ability and 90 Percent Sweat

13. However Hard a Lizard Does a Push-up, It Will Never Have an Alligator's Chest

14. Smooth Seas Do Not Make Skillful Sailors

15. It Is When There Is a Stampede that a Person with Big Buttocks Knows that He Carries a Load

16. Warm Water Never Forgets that It Was Once Cold

17. A Bird That Flies off the Earth and Lands on an Anthill Is Still on the Ground

18. Be a Mountain or Lean on One

19. A Flea Can Trouble a Lion More Than a Lion Can Trouble a Flea

20. If You Are Building a House and a Nail Breaks, Do You Stop Building or Do You Change the Nail?

21. Just Because a Man Is Short, It Does Not Make Him a Child.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780062961716

0062961713

0008486972

9780008486976

OCLC:

1244277239