Nikki Giovanni: "We Are Virginia Tech!"

let's go Hokies!

Amazing.

I remember watching this on TV with tears in my eyes. What a beautiful piece of poetry. Ms. Giovanni captured the true essence of how all of Virginia Tech (and frankly, all of America) was feeling at that moment.

That 'let's go Hokies' chant was one of the most emotionally-charged chants you will ever hear.

Also, the song is beautiful.

I've never heard anyone give such an empowering speech that so beautifully captured the Hokie spirit.

I am so very proud to be a Hokie... Thank you Ms. Giovanni, thank you.

When she gave this speech i have never been prouder to be a Hokie.

We will prevail, we ARE Virginia Tech!!!!!


I love you hokies.

It's moments like these, where everyone can come together, that makes me so proud to be a Hokie.

I was in that room not 30 feet away crying for my friends I had lost when she said this. She gave me permission to stand up and take my world back...to realize that I was no longer a victim but a charged and fueled Hokie ready to invent the future.

World, you were there for the Hokies when we needed you. We will work endlessly for you in return. We will prevail. Watch us and know you can achieve anything.

This gentle little woman was such an inspirition with her fiery,loving,bittersweet,poetr y in the 70's. A revolutionary voice "..I am a gazelle so swift, so swift, you can't catch me...I mean I can fly... like a bird in the sky..." (Ego Tripping) This wonderful woman is living proof that the pen is mightier than the sword. A few more like her and we may be able to save the world.

Heysátan by Sigur Rós

what a perfect way to bring together a broken nation together.
truly powerful