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Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

It was astormy relationship at various points, butwe know that deprivation gives us stormy...

It was a
stormy relationship at various points, but
we know that deprivation gives us stormy relationships

Full Transcript

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It was a stormy relationship
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at various points, but we know that deprivation
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gives us stormy relationships.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
33
Timestamp in Movie
00:10:08
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.
I shared a bedroom with my sister, - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:08
I shared a bedroom with my sister,
When you start to look at things that have been - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:09
When you start to look at things that have been
If this is what it appears to me, this is asphalt. - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 00:06
If this is what it appears to me, this is asphalt.
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,