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The sickle-cell got me where doctors said I couldn't play sports, I couldn't overexert myself.

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Prodigy
American - Musician
November 2, 1974 - June 20, 2017

I have a deadly disease called Sickle Cell Anemia that I was born with that affects millions of others - primarily in the Black and Latino cultures. I feel I can inspire others with this Sickle Cell disease to be strong and believe in themselves.

Prodigy

Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle cell anemia.

Nathan Deal

I have to thank God for bringing me through and allowing me to continue to do charitable work for other sick children suffering with sickle cell.

Tionne Watkins

Sickle cell disease has personally affected my family.

Mike Conley Jr.

Because of my sickle-cell disease, I have a high tolerance for pain.

Tionne Watkins

Sunday-the doctor's paradise! Doctors at country clubs, doctors at the seaside, doctors with mistresses, doctors with wives, doctors in church, doctors in yachts, doctors everywhere resolutely being people, not doctors.

Sylvia Plath

I've been through a lot with sickle-cell, but my recovery from the brain tumor was the hardest thing.

Tionne Watkins

If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.

Pablo Picasso

The reason I got into sickle cell was my aunt has the disease, my uncle has the disease, and then the more I looked into it, a lot of minorities have the disease and it just doesn't get covered. No one really talks about it, and I felt it was the same thing with the different social injustice issues and topics that I kind of dove into.

Devin McCourty

A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.

Virginia Foxx

I couldn't afford to get sick in prison. My sickle cell is no joke, so I couldn't eat poorly or not exercise. And everything in jail is designed to do the exact opposite.

Prodigy

Sickle cell does not have the priority in this country that it had in the 1960s, when I started working on it. Congress has been cutting everything that wasn't nailed down.

Danny K. Davis

I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.

Tommy Cooper

To compare writing an article for 'Sports Illustrated' to doing a piece for 'Real Sports', the article, it was all me. You know, I'm out there by myself with my pad and pencil. 'Real Sports,' I've got a producer, an assistant producer, and cameramen. It's an individual game versus a team game.

Frank Deford

"Why is it sports is the only thing white people see us being successful at? I don't want to play football," he said. "I wanna be a lawyer." "That's fine with me," I said, a little annoyed. "I've just never heard of a Negro lawyer, that's all. You've got to hear of these things before you can imagine them." "Bullshit. You gotta imagine what's never been."

Sue Monk Kidd

Sickle cell was my life before hip-hop. I ain't really have no life - that was it.

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