In the past few months, blocks of inspirational text attributed to Prince have appeared on his Facebook, Instagram and X accounts with no clear sources cited.
"People who have no creativity, talent or courage are the ones who follow the rules," Prince reportedly said in a
post from June 20. "Be brave, be bold, step up and make your own! The passion that lies inside of you means you don’t need to follow the pack, because you transcend it.”
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July 28 post read: “Time is something we created in order to measure the span of our lives. It’s not meant to create fear in you or paralyze you from moving forward. You are never too old and it is never too late to start over.”
A third, from
August 11, said: “People will always have their opinions. Only you know who you really are. Focus on living authentically and honestly, have integrity in all that you do, and those opinions won’t matter.”
Although he did speak on these themes, Prince was infamous for insisting that journalists could not record or even take notes while interviewing him – so the veracity of these quotes is difficult to parse. None of them include the original sources.
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