ABSTRACT
This chapter composes by Sonia Sanchez based on a telephone interview conducted by Lauri Ramey on 7 September 2004. The Heritage books were done quite well and were very important work. Anything being done at that time about writers in the black diaspora was important. Most of Breman's books were reviewed in the USA, which was unusual at the time for black poetry. Black writing had been consciously ignored. Paul Breman and Dudley Randall showed the range of black writing in this country. They made a spacea room for all of us. There were those who considered themselves revolutionaries and progressives, and others who just considered themselves black writers. The Heritage series was showing the wide range of black writing in America. There was no censoring of thought in the independent presses. Independent presses published writers who could not go the large-scale route.
