From: The Landmark Trust USA <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 01 August 2018 19:28
To: Michael Kipling <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: Kipling and Maya Angelou

On Aug 1, 2018, at 2:11 PM, Mike Kipling <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

 

Diana,

 

Thanks for this suggestion. I have done as you suggest.

 

Mike Kipling

Chairman

The Kipling Society

 

From: DCB Gmail <[log in to unmask]> 
Sent: 01 August 2018 15:30
To: [log in to unmask]; Kipling Society <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Kipling and Maya Angelou

 

Please can you post this comment on their Facebook page? Nothing like pointing out to the young that they need to do their research before jumping in feet first….

Many thanks

Yours ever

Diana C. Briscoe, PhD
London NW6 1UP

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On 30 Jul 2018, at 20:41, Mike Kipling <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

 

Many will have seen the story recently that the words of ‘If’ which had been painted on a wall at Manchester University Students’ Union had been erased because the students considered Kipling Imperialist and racist. In its place they inscribed the Maya Angelou poem ‘Still I Rise’.

Whatever one may think of their opinion of Kipling, it is rather ironic that Angelou herself had a soft spot for his work, and particularly for ‘If’.

As Andrew Lycett points out in his biography, she wrote (of a difficult time in her life when she was a young, single mother) “I could, and often did to my baby and myself, recite … Kipling’s ‘If’…” (in Gather Together in my Name). She also wrote, in I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing, that she “…enjoyed and respected Kipling …” and that, eventually, ‘If’ was supplanted by another uplifting work, ‘Invictus’.

 

Mike Kipling

Chairman, The Kipling Society

 

 

 

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