HeLa = Selah. Awo.

The indispensable & immortal "Hela Gene" means Henrietta Lacks

Those who are dead are never gone,

they are in the breast of the woman,

they are in the child who is wailing,

and in the firebrand that flames.

The dead are not under the earth;

they are in the fire that is dying,

they are in the grasses that weep,

they are in the whimpering rocks,

they are in the forest, they are in the house,

the dead are not dead.

                                                ~Birago Diop