Shaun King Quotes

I think that people post to social media to help shape their public identity.

I'm way flashier on Instagram and Snapchat because I feel like that's what people want to see, and that's I've always done, so I'm not going to stop. People want to see my cars and my purses. People love fashion. But that's so not me.

People think they have a perfect idea of who you are from a four-second Snapchat video... and fake blogs, stories, magazine covers. In reality, that's not the case. Nobody knows who I am except family and my close friends.

There is absolutely a side of me that people don't know. I'm not myself on Snapchat or Instagram. That's totally not me.

I mean, look when you meet me in real life, I'm not the person you see on the Internet, as disappointing as that is.

Filmmakers are stuck with my glamorous image. Even if I sit in track pants and a T-shirt, I will still look glamorous. That's the way I am. But there's more to me. I'm a real person.

I love social media. It's nice to share a side of me that people don't generally get to see or know about. I want them to know me, beyond my characters.

Social media should be a true sense of who you are.

People have presences, both online and in real life. You can choose to show everything, meaning all sides of you, or you can choose to be selective.

Some people believe that they should have two different lives, and one is what they show on TV and one is their personal life. I am not that person.

I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

I'm not trying to live a social media life or a life to just be in a magazine.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

There's this weird thing that happens when you contribute something to a static profile. You have to worry about how this new content fits in with your online persona that's supposed to be you. It's uncomfortable and unfortunate.

The line between what I really am, and what I am on reel, is slowly diminishing.

I say the stupidest stuff, all the time, off of Twitter, and so I think Twitter is good way for people to get to know the stupid side of me.

I'm much nicer in person than on Twitter.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

Because of Twitter, I think people know most every single thing about me. I don't know if there's anything that would surprise people about me.

No one really knows what I'm really like, and you won't unless you spend a day with me, or if you're my friend. No one ever knows what anyone is really like. Read all the interviews you want on them, it's just the media talking and you can't really get to know someone that way, obviously.

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

There's definitely more to me offline than what you see online. Because what I show online is what I want to show to my followers... If I showed everything I did offline, it might not align with some of my other followers around the world.

I didn't necessarily intend it for myself, but it just happens with Instagram and Twitter; people come up to me and call me Emrata; they don't call me Emily. That's my brand, my identity.

I know very well the difference between my image and who I am.