Ghetto Bible: The Testimony of a Black Knight from Washington Heights
By Vernon Snell
Length1h 50m
About this audiobook
Ghetto Bible: The Testimony of a Black Knight from Washington Heights is Vernon Snell’s raw testimony of survival, memory, faith, street life, family, hustle, loss, and transformation. Raised in Washington Heights during an era shaped by drugs, poverty, immigration, policing, music, and relentless pressure, Vernon writes not as an outsider studying the neighborhood, but as a man who lived inside it.
Through poetry, memoir, street philosophy, spiritual reflection, and lived experience, Ghetto Bible questions money, power, addiction, race, identity, success, and the systems that influence how people see themselves and one another.
This is not a celebration of the streets. It is the testimony of a survivor looking back at the world that raised him—and turning scars into scripture for the generations coming behind him.
The streets were the classroom. Survival was the lesson. This is the Ghetto Bible.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Poetry
Length1 hr 50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 21, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
17Sirens in My Head
2Letter to the Reader
18Where Did My Time Go
3Introduction
19Buster Brown to Prada
4A Note on This Edition
20Dear Earth
5Deep Inside
21Invisible Money
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6Black Sheep
22Real People Illusion
7We Did It in Yonkers
23What Does Matter About Black
8Remember Me
24Blueprints of a Broken Dream
9Breakdancing Through Life
25Ghetto Corrected
10The Hustler and the Cop
26Illegal by Design
11Welfare Karma
27Devilish America
12Scripted Life
28Eyes Open in the Dark
13Brand New
29God Walks With Me
14Flip the Script
30Ghetto Bible: The Gospel of the Black Knight
15Welfare Ain’t Fair
31About Vernon Snell
16The Signal
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