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1. "we feel that our voices are who we are, and that to have more than one, or to use different versions of a voice for different occasions, represents, at best, a janus-faced duplicity, and at worst, the loss of our very souls."(180)  is this true? I understand that we feel that our voice is who we are, that makes sense. But the idea that we think that us using different voices is wrong? I disagree everyone changes their voice depending on their situation. It helps us to relate to others. It is not "the loss of our very souls"

2."This new president doesn't just speak for his people. he can speak them." (182) Is this Obama truly trying to speak like other people or is he just getting in their mindset so that he can better represent them?

3. "his story of a genuinely many voiced man. If it has a moral it is that each man must be true to his selves, plural." (183)   Does Obama break the mold? is he somehow better at having more voices then us? is it not to him the "loss of his soul"?

4. "to occupy a dream, to exist in a dreamed space, is surely a quite different thing from simply inheriting a dream." (183) Is Zadie trying to say that we take our aspirations and goals and change our voice to fit those? and that goals our parents try to force on us change our voice?

5."Everyone wants to be Barack Obama. Even I want to be Barack Obama" (184) Is this really how Zadie feels Obama thinks? I feel like she is leaving out politics in how he would have created this figure of Barack Obama intentionally knowing he cant be it but can still receive those votes.

6. "I further audaciously hope that such a man will not mistake the happy accident of his own cultural sensibilities for a set of natural laws, suitable for general application." (194)  Does Zadie think that the voices we have we look at from a distance and let decide what we do?