What is a summary of the essay, Stand Up, from the collection, Minor Feelings?

In the essay, Stand Up, Hong explores the ways in which studying comedian Richard Pryor's work allowed her to reevaluate and reinvent her own racial and artistic identity. In Pryor's stand up, Hong witnessed an authenticity and boldness she had been unable to embrace in her own writing. Unlike Pryor, she feared her majority white audience. She felt entrapped by the ways in which she was expected to narrate and express her lived experience, the truth of her voice. Hong then attempted employing humor at the start of her readings in order to acknowledge her insecurities before the audience could.