Jolanda Scott

“He told them he was testing their immune systems; he said nothing about injecting them with someone else’s malignant cells.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“You should pack up your statuary and go home.”
― Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves

“my book Lower Ed is fundamentally about.4 It is what all of my work is about.”
― Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

“When I saw those toenails,” Mary told me years later, “I nearly fainted. I thought, Oh jeez, she’s a real person. I started imagining her sitting in her bathroom painting those toenails, and it hit me for the first time that those cells we’d been working with all this time and sending all over the world, they came from a live woman. I’d never thought of it that way.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks