W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in the NAACP's magazine "The Crisis" on this topic, saying in 1921: "We want everything that is said about us to tell of the best and highest and noblest in us. We insist that our Art and Propaganda be one." He added in 1926, "All Art is propaganda and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists." Du Bois and the editors of "The Crisis" consistently stated that literature was a tool in the struggle for African-American political liberation.