Cack-Handed : : a Memoir

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Call Number: 792.702 Ya, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Musicians & Entertainers / Yashere, Gina
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

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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.
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.
From birth, Yashere carried a birthmark on her neck: a sign to her family that she was her grandmother's chosen heir and would fulfill Patience'’s dreams of learning to speak perfect English, live unfettered by men or children, work a man's job, and travel the world with a free spirit. Growing up as a child of Nigerian immigrants in working-class London, she become the first female engineer with the UK branch of Otis, the largest elevator company in the world. Going through a baptism of fire from her racist and sexist coworkers, she eventually left engineering to become one of the top stand-up comics in the UK, before moving to the US. Here Yashere reveals how her unconventional upbringing became the foundation of her successful career. -- adapted from jacket

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