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)