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1. Nikki Giovanni had words. Man, did she ever.

   A Virginia Tech professor and renowned poet, she brought the house down Tuesday with a staccato, 90-second sermonette that raised the hair on your neck.

   Giovanni began:

   We are Virginia Tech

   We are sad today

   And we will be sad for quite a while

   We are not moving on

   We are embracing our mourning

   We are Virginia Tech

   We are strong enough to stand tall tirelessly

   We are brave enough to bend to cry

   And sad enough to know we must laugh again

   We are Virginia Tech

   And she concluded:

   We are strong and brave and innocent and unafraid

   We are better than we think and not quite what we want to be

   We are alive to the imagination and the possibility

   We will continue to invent the future

   Through our blood and tears

   Through all this sadness

   We are the Hokies

   We will prevail

   We will prevail

   We will prevail

   We are …Virginia Tech

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