Wadada:
Artists have learned to respect differences at a far greater level than any other part of our society. None of these other areas, like medicine or education, come close to how the artist experiences the same types of phenomena that everybody encounters. We want to get to as ideal a mode of what a society can look like. We play with people from Europe, Asia, Africa, and artists from any of the island nations. Although they may have different philosophical and religious beliefs, it doesn’t bother us. And we would never confront them in an angry or a dictatorial way trying to show that our way is better. We accept them and they accept us.