Acceptance	To know you must survive for your family. To face the fact that you may not come home again. You’re leaving your eight young children and your beautiful wife behind.
Bravery	Allows you to face danger of pain without showing fear. Deal with the mob as an equal.
Caution	You get to be called slippery when the police can’t make a case against you.
Curiosity	You have to be in the places where people have money. You can’t be afraid to go into any environment.
Determination	A hustler has to have firmness of purpose.
Devotion	A hustler must exhibit great love or loyalty and enthusiastic zeal to his skills.
Discretion	keeping secrets. To have everyone use pagers and codes in the sixties was cautious.
Flexibility	You might have to make changes to your plan so always have a backup plan
Forgiveness	To stop feeling angry or bitter if you lose and hold no grudge toward a person or about any offense.
Generosity	Sharing the money and prestige with family and friends.
Gentleness	Being sensitive, kind, and soft toward old people and children.
Gratitude	Being thankful to God.
Honesty	Truthful; sincere; not lying or cheating people.
Humbleness	Mom was modest; not arrogant or boastful. Dad was far from humble
Humor	They had the ability to laugh in the face of all their problems with the law.
Industry	Hardworking diligent and timely in your actions.
Justice	Being fair and impartial and giving a balanced response to an afront.
Kindness	Friendly, well meaning, and helpful.
Love	A full sense of underlying oneness with God and kin.
Loyalty	Allegiance to your folks; faithfulness to a person, an ideal, a custom, a cause, or a duty or faith. Pop would not become an informant for the police.
Majesty	The dignity of being able to call yourself a grown man, King of the street huslters.
Moderation	The ability to categorize the priority of a particular need in order to minimize the excessive use of a particular thing used to satisfy that need.
Obedience	The willingness to carry out orders or to obey when necessary.
Patience	The ability to endure pain or hardship while focused on the hope of a better situation in the near future.
Prudence	Being wise or careful in conduct; shrewd or thrifty in planning ahead.
Reliability	Be trusted to act appropriately when the occasion presents itself.
Responsibility	To exhibit control over and accountability for appropriate events.
Sensitivity	A heightened sense of awareness within the context of human nature and relationships.
Simplicity	Making things easy for yourself and others by using the most straightforward route.
Strength	The ability of exerting great force or will power.
Toughness	Knowing you’re beaten but not giving in to defeat. Perseverance through hard times.
Trust	Having full confidence in family.
Trustworthiness	Momma always knew Dad would try to make good on his word.