Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.Deborah Lacks
No one told her that her cells were basically stolen, and they would be making millions of dollars off of it.Zakariyya Lacks
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.Elie Wiesel
Clover, Virginia, no longer exists on a map, but it's still a town.Rebecca Skloot
Henrietta's cells have now been living outside her body far longer than they ever lived inside it.Rebecca Skloot
Scientists had been trying to keep human cells alive in culture for decades, but they all eventually died. Henrietta's were different: they reproduced an entire generation every twenty-four hours, and they never stopped.Rebecca Skloot
I tell you, I lived on George Gey’s paycheck where they send me a check for touching my own mother’s cells. I don’t know nothing about no cells or nothing else.Deborah Lacks
Her beautiful complexion would become as black as a plum, charred by radiation.Rebecca Skloot
You know what is a myth? Everybody always saying Henrietta Lacks donated those cells. She didn’t donate nothing. They took them and didn’t ask.Zakariyya Lacks
But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad.Deborah Lacks