Cack-handed : a memoir /
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.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Man is like pepper
- you only know him when you've ground him
- Languages differ, but coughs are the same
- A snake can only give birth to long things
- When the laborer is praised, his cutlass begins to cut more keenly
- Going to church doesn't make you a holy person any more than going to a garage makes you a mechanic
- If you are eating with the devil, you must use a long spoon
- It is not what you are called, but what you answer to
- If you sleep with an itching anus, you will definitely wake up with your hand smelling
- Where you fall, you should know that it is God who pushed you
- Procrastination is the thief of time
- The same sun that melts wax also hardens clay
- Success is 10 percent ability and 90 percent sweat
- However hard a lizard does a push-up, it will never have an alligator's chest
- Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors
- It is when there is a stampede that a person with big buttocks knows that he carries a load
- Warm water never forgets that it was once cold
- A bird that flies off the earth and lands on an anthill is still on the ground
- Be a mountain or lean on one
- A flea can trouble a lion more than a lion can trouble a flea
- If you are building a house an a nail breaks, do you stop building or do you change the nail?
- Just because a man is short, it does not make him a child
- Epilogue.