TESTIMONY: THE STREETS WERE MY TRAINING
By Vernon Snell
Length3h 50m
About this audiobook
**TESTIMONY: THE STREETS WERE MY TRAINING**
*A Poetic Cinema Archive of Washington Heights*
**By Vernon Snell**
What happens when the streets become your classroom and survival becomes your education?
Born in the Bronx and raised in Washington Heights, Vernon Snell takes readers through a lifetime of struggle, ambition, loss, survival, and transformation.
Through the voices of Benson, Vernon, and the Curator, this powerful collection blends raw testimony, personal reflection, poetry, psychology, and cultural history.
From the streets of the 1980s to entrepreneurship, family, addiction, betrayal, and the search for identity, each testimony reveals how life shapes the human mind.
More than a memoir, this is a living archive of a neighborhood, a generation, and a man determined to preserve the experiences that shaped him.
**The streets were his training. His survival became his testimony.**
*Poetic Cinema — Where lived experience becomes art.*r.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Action and Adventure
Length3 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 8, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
26Bright Lights, Fast Lane
2Copyright & Edition Notice
27Chameleon in the System
3Dedication
28I’m Still Here
4How to Read This Archive
29Addicted Without Drugs
5Curator’s Preface
30Layers of Addiction
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6Introduction — The Meaning of Training
31Solace on 143rd Street
7The Three Voices
32Never in One Spot
8A Tapestry of Memories
33The Weight of Trust
9Simplicity and African-Americans
34One Story, Never Two
10Route to the Roots
35Under Watch
11Bottles, Sugar, and the Hidden Slavery
36Rainy Days
12War in the Labels
37Competition and the Firsts
13A Call from the Past
38Fairytales at GLOW
14Training — Part 1
39I Glow Through Tragedy
15Training — Part 2
40All I Wanted Was a Thank You
16Training — Part 3
41No Hug at the Door
17Training — Part 4
42Reasons Why
18Growing Up in Madness
43Danger and the Knife
19From Matrix to Superheroes
44Still Here to Help
20I Don’t Know How I Survived
45Invisible Money
21Mr. Defeat, Mr. Systemic Defeat
46Paper to Numbers
22We Always Find a Way
47Connecting the Dots of Crazy
23Miami, Yonkers, and the Trick of Heights
48When the Mind Won’t Rest
24From Splinters to Venues
49The Arsenal of the Mind
25Solace and GLOW
50Rap of Life
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Washington Heights Kids: Growing UpVernon Snell1h 32m$2.99
Stories of Us: Kind Hands, Bright Hearts Vernon Snell52m$2.99
Starry Ink: Nadia’s Cosmic AdventuresVernon Snell47m$2.99
Poetic Cinema HistoryVernon Snell1h 35m$4.99
Poetic Cinema HISTORY: BENEATH OUR FEETVernon Snell1h 43m$2.99
SWEET JUICE: The Black Knight of Washington HeightsVernon Snell8h 56m$4.99
THE FLOWERS WERE NEVER THE PROBLEMVernon “The Black Knight” Snell6h 14m$9.99
A Music and Lyrics Journey: Washington Heights, Memory, and the Times Around ItVernon Snell40m$4.99
Money MachineVernon Snell1h 7m$4.99
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