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Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

If this is what it appearsto me, this is asphalt

If this is what it appears
to me, this is asphalt

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If this is what it appears to me, this is asphalt.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
43
Timestamp in Movie
00:10:55
Uploaded
Apr 12, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Rada Studio,Confluential Films,JustFilms / Ford Foundation,Bertha Doc Society,HBO Documentary Films

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Movie Summary

A look at the life of poet, Nikki Giovanni and the revolutionary historical periods through which she lived, from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter.
Have difficulties as a kid, what you have to do is, uh... - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:07
Have difficulties as a kid, what you have to do is, uh...
You have to have an imagination, - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:09
You have to have an imagination,
I automatically wipe my eyes - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:06
I automatically wipe my eyes
Maybe I will learn. My mother did - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:11
Maybe I will learn. My mother did
I laugh easily and I smile, and withhold any true feelings. - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:06
I laugh easily and I smile, and withhold any true feelings.
"Maybe I should be happy I found - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:14
"Maybe I should be happy I found
And I'm trying to understand more, - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:06
And I'm trying to understand more,
And it seemed like my mother needed, - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:07
And it seemed like my mother needed,
My father hit my mother so hard - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:09
My father hit my mother so hard
She says to me, - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:08
She says to me,
I don't need an overseas enemy. I have my father. - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:06
I don't need an overseas enemy. I have my father.
And the band played on." - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:05
And the band played on."
Well, I shouldn't say this on the radio, I guess, - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:09
Well, I shouldn't say this on the radio, I guess,
I decided to move. But the funny thing was, - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:11
I decided to move. But the funny thing was,
I don't understand how on one hand - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:07
I don't understand how on one hand
That he can be nothing in the streets - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:07
That he can be nothing in the streets
That he can be brutalized by some White person somewhere, - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:08
That he can be brutalized by some White person somewhere,
- It's got to... - the same way - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:05
- It's got to... - the same way
Which perpetuates... I mean, you take somebody like me - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:06
Which perpetuates... I mean, you take somebody like me
But, Nikki, it's also true that since your mother - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:06
But, Nikki, it's also true that since your mother