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Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

When you start to lookat things that have been changed so much, I mean, it's very hard...I...

When you start to look
at things that have been changed so much, I mean, it's very hard...
I couldn't begin as I say

Full Transcript

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When you start to look at things that have been
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changed so much,
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I mean, it's very hard... I couldn't begin as I say.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
42
Timestamp in Movie
00:10:48
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.
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,
- 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