Famous First Line and Last Line

The famous first line that I chose is "They shoot the white girl first".
From what I have found this line comes from the book Paradise written by Toni Morrison. This book seems to be about a town that is an all-black town. They are the descendants of slaves and they want to isolate themselves from the world like it rejected them and those before them. But not too far from them is another town. And in this town are these women who have to protect themselves from the men of the all-black town.
I don't think that I would want to read this book. Maybe someday. I think I would just like to have someone who has read it tell me the story with more detail than what the internet may be able to tell me. Because the story itself sounds kind of interesting but not like one that I would want to take time to read.

The famous last line that I chose is "He heard the ring of the steel against steel as a far door clanged shut".
It came from the book Native Son by Richard Wright.  It's set in the 1930s in Chicago and is about being a black in inner cities of America at that time. It follows the story of Bigger Thomas and how he, in moment of panic, kills a younger white women. And eventually ends up in jail.
I don't think that I would want to read this book. It sounds pretty violent and I don't really care to read that kind of thing. And I like more modern books and this is a little too back in the day for me.