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Black Bourgeois Virtues
- Austerity or Thrift
- Bravery without self-pity (Suffer without complaint)
- Courage
- Determination
- Discipline
- Frankness and Probity
- Godliness coupled with religious tolerance
- Humility and Modesty
- Incorruptibility
- Industriousness
- Loyalty
- Punctuality
- Obedience, but not without frankness
- Reliability
- Restraint
- Self-denial
- Self-effacement (Be better than you appear to be)
- Sense of Duty or Conscientiousness
- Sense of Justice
- Sense of Order
- Sincerity
- Straightness or Straightforwardness
- Subordination
- Toughness (be harder against yourself even more than you are others)