This article describes our evolution as two Black American women academics who, after years of dealing with our community's marginalization and our own marginalization in the academy, began to employ research as a way of surviving. To share the significance of this experience, we first reflect on our understandings of our positionality within the academy and the ways that Black women have historically survived under such conditions. Second, we discuss qualitative research methodology, specifically interviewing as a healing process that ultimately led us to identify spirituality as a critical aspect of the Black community that had been silenced in our formal educational experiences and within our profession in the academy. Finally, we conclude with some of the professional choices we have made because of our spiritual lenses.