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- “Like the Bible said,' Gary whispered, 'man brought nothing into this world and he'll carry nothing out. Sometimes we care about stuff too much. We worry when there's nothing to worry about.”
- “She's the most important person in the world and her family living in poverty. If our mother is so important to science, why can't we get health insurance?”
- “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.”
- “When he asked if she was okay, her eyes welled with tears and she said, “Like I’m always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can’t do it with a hate attitude.
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This quotation appears in Chapter 28, when there was a movement in Clover to create a Henrietta Lacks museum. These questions, which come from Deborah and Speed, the owner of the local grocery store, highlight how little of Henrietta as a person is known despite the fame of her cells.
This quotation comes from the “Deborah’s Voice” section before Chapter 1. Here, Deborah neatly sums up the great injustice at the center of Henrietta’s story. The scientists at Hopkins who biopsied Henrietta’s cells and cultured them never considered the person whose cells they took.
“I’ll never forget it,” Aurelian said. “George told me he leaned over Henrietta’s bed and said, ‘Your cells will make you immortal.’. He told Henrietta her cells would help save the lives of countless people, and she smiled. She told him she was glad her pain would come to some good for someone.” Pg. 107.
