November 6, 2012 JMRL Blog “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?” Deborah “Dale” Lacks, Henrietta Lacks’ daughter
September 24, 2012 JMRL Blog “I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it.” – Henry Miller
August 24, 2012 JMRL Blog ‘I always liked to think he made me and all of us better than we were. He was just about the smartest man I ever met.’—Liz Smith about Gore Vidal
July 24, 2012 JMRL Blog “What did these small things mean? Why does touch matter? And what survives?” — Edmund de Waal
June 22, 2012 JMRL Blog “I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.” Reynolds Price
May 19, 2012 JMRL Blog “However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.”
April 19, 2012 JMRL Blog “A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.” ― Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book