Expecting too much?

So ABC news had this special concerning the fact that 42% of women have never been married. I wasn't really worried or anything because my main concern right now is passing the 11th grade. So I was basically nonchalantly watching it until Steve Harvey's bald headed behind makes this statement:
"Black women don't have to settle but they should compromise."

As a pretty decent intelligent girl with pretty good morals I expect certain things from a guy. Not much: the ability to read, taller than I am, college educated/or has a life plan that's reasonable, nice, believes in god...

So how do we know if we're asking too much? If we expect something that we have not yet been able to find are we overestimating our self worth? And what's the difference between compromise and settling in this particular situation? Just something to boggle the mind. like i said I don't want a ring on it right now...
Now back to my life:
Shawty brand new, fresh out the box
Gah The new year begins bring the ritualistic resolution with it. In the past Ive set pretty good goals and usually met about half of them. This year I noticed that cash ruled everything around me. When I was mad or unhappy I would thing to myself when i get my check I'll buy this and that when in reality the source of my happiness was something that could never be bought. Even now that I'm unemployed and broke when I'm mad or having a bad day I just think that if I had a job and could buy myself nice things I'd feel better. So next year I'm gonna try to understand that money isn't everything. Uh the friends situation is really easy. Sometimes I just put to much faith in the wrong people. I really want to meet to people and eventually become friends with them but it always seem that the
new people I meet flake on me one way or another. It's not like I'm not content with the friends I have it's just I would like to step out of the box a little. School! I can't afford to slack off anymore. My goal is to complete my junior year of HS with all A's WITHOUT the weighted credit. Everything this year seems pretty reasonable.