Charles Reis Felix

thumb|Thank God for the mind. It's the only place where we have freedom of speech. Charles Reis Felix (April 29, 1923 – January 25, 2017) was an American writer who was a prominent contributor to Luso-American literature. Quotes Crossing the Sauer: a memoir of World War II (2002) Thank God for the mind. It's the only place where we have freedom of speech. Page 125 Chance dictates everything. Page 176 Through a Portagee Gate (2004) He is gone now. His shop is gone. Weld Square is gone.His life has been wiped clean off the board.But I wake in the night and I see his face and I hear his voice. Prologue Da Gama, Cary Grant, and the Election of 1934 (2005) "The Portuguese are the unknown people. We are lost in this vast country. Nobody knows we are here. To be Portuguese in America is to be a stone dropped in the middle of the ocean. It sinks beneath the waves and vanishes without a trace." Page 101 External links Official Website Category:Authors from the United States Category:Educators from the United States Category:Memoirists from the United States Category:People from Massachusetts Category:1923 births Category:2017 deaths