Top 32 Rebecca Skloot Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. As one of Henrietta's relatives said to me, "If you pretty up how people spoke and change the things they said, that's dishonest. It's taking away their lives, their experiences, and their selves." In
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#3. For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.
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#4. Henrietta's were different: they reproduced an entire generation every twenty-four hours, and they never stopped. They became the first immortal human cells ever grown in a laboratory.
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#5. Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way.
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#6. But today when people talk about the history of Hopkins's relationship with the black community, the story many of them hold up as the worst offense is that of Henrietta Lacks - a black woman whose body, they say, was exploited by white scientists.
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#8. Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.
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#9. if our mother cells done so much for medicine, how come her family can't afford to see no doctors?
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#10. 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?
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#11. Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients would have gotten and they died more often of diseases.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Quoted a local woman, Courtney Speed, who owned a grocery
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#14. 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. You got to remember, times was different.
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#15. A casual observer can testify only to the moment. And what one sees will always be colored by what one longs to see.
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#17. Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus - and at the very same time - that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.
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#18. There are more than one hundred strains of HPV in existence, thirteen of which cause cervical, anal, oral, and penile cancer - today, around 90 percent of all sexually active adults become infected with at least one strain during their lifetimes.
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#19. Some things you got to release. Gary said. The more you hold them in, the worse you get. When you release them, they got to go somewhere else. The Bible says He can carry all that burden.
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#20. As in all good training, in the end it doesn't much matter who trained whom; we all got what we wanted.
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#21. Henrietta's cells have now been living outside her body far longer than they ever lived inside it,
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#22. Many scientists believed that since patients were treated for free in the public wards, it was fair to use them as research subjects as a form of payment. And as Howard Jones once wrote, Hopkins, with its large indigent black population, had no dearth of clinical material.
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#23. I keep with me all I know about you deep in my soul, because I am part of you, and you are me.
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#24. For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.
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#25. But I always have thought it was strange, if our mother cells done so much for medicine, how come her family can't afford to see no doctors? Don't make no sense. People got rich off my mother without us even knowin about them takin her cells, now we don't get a dime.
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#26. The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.
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#27. I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.
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#28. For an animal that must kill to live, it makes sense for the hunt and the kill to be pleasurable. If you don't kill, you don't eat, and if you don't eat, you die.
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#29. We have to be cautious when we interpret animal behaviors, especially when we want a behavior to mean something in particular. Wanting is a drug, a hallucinogen.
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#30. The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'
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#31. Often doctors didn't even tell you what was wrong with you. They just treated you, and sent you home.
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#32. Like many doctors of his era, TeLinde often used patients from the public wards for research, usually without their knowledge.
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