Nigger 
Subtitle: an autobiography
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1965
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780671750916
First sentence: It's a sad and beautiful feeling to walk home slow on Christmas Eve after you've been out hustling all day, shining shoes in the white taverns and going to the store for the neighbors and buying and stealing presents from the ten-cent store, and now it's dark and still along the street and your feet feel warm and sweaty inside your tennis sneakers even if the wind finds the holes in your mittens.