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Henrietta’s youngest child, Joe is physically and emotionally abused after his mother dies. He grows up with severe mental issues and problems with authority and is eventually imprisoned for murder. In jail, he converts to Islam and changes his name to Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman. Eventually Deborah and Rebecca help him learn more about his mother’s legacy, and he is deeply moved by what he finds.
Joe Lacks (Zakariyya) Quotes in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Chapter 30
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Only people that can get any good from my mother cells is the people that got money, and whoever sellin them cells—they get rich off our mother and we got nothing…All those damn people didn’t deserve her help as far as I’m concerned.
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Chapter 32
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Deborah and Zakariyya stared at the screen like they’d gone into a trance, mouths open, cheeks sagging. It was the closest they’d come to seeing their mother alive since they were babies.
[Deborah] raised the vial and touched it to her lips. “You’re famous,” she whispered, “Just nobody knows it.”
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Joe Lacks (Zakariyya) Quotes in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Chapter 30
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Only people that can get any good from my mother cells is the people that got money, and whoever sellin them cells—they get rich off our mother and we got nothing…All those damn people didn’t deserve her help as far as I’m concerned.
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Chapter 32
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Deborah and Zakariyya stared at the screen like they’d gone into a trance, mouths open, cheeks sagging. It was the closest they’d come to seeing their mother alive since they were babies.
[Deborah] raised the vial and touched it to her lips. “You’re famous,” she whispered, “Just nobody knows it.”
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