Pulitzer Prize
-winning writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his autobiography
, Growing Up.
Baker was the eldest of three children born to Benny and Lucy Elizabeth Baker in Morrisonville, Virginia
. His first sister, Doris, was born in 1927, and after three years his second sister Audrey was born. Unfortunately, due to being desperately poor during the great depression, his mother had to make a heartbreaking decision and gave Audrey up for adoption to her brother-in-law and his wife.
A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to. 
In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
It seems to be a law of American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.
In America nothing dies easier than tradition.